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Konstantin Novoselov

Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 2010

Konstantin Novoselov received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 with Andre Geim "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

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Konstantin Novoselov was born in Russia in August 1974. He has both British and Russian citizenship. He is best known for isolating graphene at the University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. Every year since 2014 Novoselov has been included in the list of the most highly cited researchers in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for his achievements with graphene. Novoselov holds positions of a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor and the Director of the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials at the National University of Singapore. He is also part time Langworthy Professor of Physics and the Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Manchester.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to the University of Manchester in 2001. In 2019, Novoselov joined the National University of Singapore. Novoselov has published more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers. He was awarded with numerous prizes, including Nicholas Kurti Prize (2007), International Union of Pure and Applied Science Prize (2008), MIT Technology Review young innovator (2008), Europhysics Prize (2008), Bragg Lecture Prize from the Union of Crystallography (2011), the Kohn Award Lecture (2012), Leverhulme Medal from the Royal Society (2013), Onsager medal (2014), Carbon medal (2016), Dalton medal (2016), Otto Warburg Prize (2019) among many others. He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.

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