Graphene may be the material that transforms the electronics game into something amazingly new for the 21st century–the Nobel Prize committee seems to agree, and has awarded the 2010 Physics prize to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Britain's latest Nobel prizewinner has warned that cuts to research budgets could force good scientists abroad and damage universities' efforts to recruit from other countries. Konstantin Novoselov, a ...

Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments" with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in ...

For many years Andre Geim was best known for designing an experiment that looked more like a parlor trick than a serious piece of scientific research. One Friday evening, in a moment of boredom at his ...

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Two Russian-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments'' with the thinnest, strongest material known to mankind, a carbon vital for the creation of ...

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 ...