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Konstantin Novoselov

Sir Konstantin Novoselov
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Born

(1974-08-23) 23 August 1974 (age 42)
Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Residence Manchester, England
Nationality Russia and United Kingdom
Fields Solid-state physics
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Development and Applications of Mesoscopic Hall Microprobes (2004)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
  • Liam Britnell
  • Recep Zan
Known for graphene
Notable awards
Spouse Irina Barbolina
Website
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/konstantin.novoselov

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.,


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