Two Win Nobel For Work On Ultra-Thin Material -- New York TimesA pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel prize in physics for investigating the properties of ultra-thin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday.
They are Andre Geim, 51, and Konstantin Novoselov, 36. They will split the prize of $1.4 million.
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