Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor – a breakthrough that could spark the development of a new type of super-fast computer chip. Professor ...

The scientist who discovered the world's strongest material has won its oldest science prize. Sir Andre Geim has been awarded the Copley medal by the Royal Society for his numerous scientific ...

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(Nanowerk News) Andre Konstantin Geim is the only person who ever received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. He was born in 1958 in Russia, and is a Dutch-British physicist with German, Polish, Jewish and ...

The University of Manchester's Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on the electronic and other properties of single-atom thick graphene, a form of ...

Somehow it seems appropriate that the government might be basing some of its hopes for the economy's recovery on a substance that is one atom thick. The substance in question – graphene – 200 times as ...

Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester in the UK have been awarded this year’s Europhysics Prize for “discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon ...

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A year before the fall of the Soviet Union, in December 1990, a young Russian physicist arrived at Nottingham station with very little money and very poor English. He had a burly look, a wide grin and ...

Two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering work on graphene, touted as the wonder material of the 21st century. Both ...

The star of the physics world today is a new form of carbon: graphene. It's the world's thinnest material, and also perhaps the strongest. The two scientists who discovered graphene in 2004, Andre ...