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23 August 1974 Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Residence | Manchester, England |
Nationality | Russia and United Kingdom |
Fields | Solid-state physics |
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Thesis | Development and Applications of Mesoscopic Hall Microprobes (2004) |
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Known for | graphene |
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Spouse | Irina Barbolina |
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Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov FRS FRSC FInstP (born 23 August 1974) is a Russian-British physicist, and Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil, Soviet Union, in 1974. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a MSc degree in 1997, and was awarded a PhD from the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 2004 for work supervised by Andre Geim.
Novoselov has published more than 200peer-reviewed research papers on several topics including mesoscopic superconductivity (Hall magnetometry), subatomic movements of magnetic domain walls, the discovery of gecko tape and graphene.,