Friday scribble yields Nobel Prize

By David Bradley2011-01-01T00:00:00

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David Bradley on the strongest, thinnest material known to man

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics could have almost been awarded as the chemistry prize as it featured the fabrication and science of the uniquely fascinating carbon allotrope known as graphene. Nevertheless, Russian-born Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both currently working at the University of Manchester, this year share the physics glory for what the Nobel committee describes as 'groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene'. The Prize comes with a cash award of 10 million Swedish Kronor (almost £1 million).

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