Just a quick newsflash: the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (both of the University of Manchester) “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene“.
For more details see the official announcement.
Heartiest congratulations to them both! Thoroughly well deserved.
ps. They were predicted to win two years ago by Thomson Reuters.
pps. It’s a clean sweep for UK-based scientists, so far. I wonder if the government is listening?
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