Stockholm, Oct 5 : Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov Tuesday shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm.
The two were awarded for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material
graphene," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Geim, a Dutch citizen, and Novoselov who has dual British-Russian citizenship, are both from the University of Manchester in Britain.
The physics prize was the second of the Nobel awards to be announced this year. The medicine prize was awarded Monday to British researcher Robert Edwards, a pioneer of in vitro fertilisation.
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