Konstantin Novoselov

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Sergeevich and the family name is Novoselov.

Konstantin Novoselov
Born	Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov 23 August 1974 (1974-08-23) (age 37) Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, USSR
Residence	England
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Nationality	Russia
Fields	Solid State Physics
Institutions	University of Manchester
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology University of Nijmegen
Doctoral advisor	Jan Kees Maan, Andre Geim
Known for	Study of graphene
Notable awards	Nicholas Kurti European Prize (2007) Technology Review-35 Young Innovator (2008) EuroPhysics Prize (2008) International Union of Pure and Applied Science Young Scientist Prize (2008) Nobel Prize in Physics (2010)

Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov FRS (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов; born 23 August 1974) is a Russo-British physicist, most notably known for his works on graphene together with Andre Geim, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.^[1] Novoselov is currently a member of the mesoscopic physics research group at the University of Manchester as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.^[2][3] Novoselov is also a recipient of an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council.^[4]

Early life

Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil, Soviet Union, in 1974 in a Russian family.^[5] He received a Diploma from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and undertook his Ph.D. studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom with his doctoral advisor Andre Geim in 2001. He now holds both Russian and British citizenship.^[6]

Career

Together with Geim, Novoselov has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers on several topics including mesoscopic superconductivity (Hall magnetometry),^[7] subatomic movements of magnetic domain walls,^[8] the discovery of gecko tape^[9] and graphene.^[10]

In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.^[11]

Publications at ADS NASA

• Astrophysics Data System

Awards

• 2007 Nicholas Kurti European Prize "aimed to promote and recognise the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of Low Temperatures and/or High Magnetic Fields."^[12]
• 2008 Technology Review-35 Young Innovator ^[13]
• 2008 Europhysics Prize, "for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties."^[14]
• 2008 International Union of Pure and Applied Science Young Scientist Prize, "for his contribution in the discovery of graphene and for pioneering studies of its extraordinary properties."^[15]
• 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andre Geim, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."^[1] Novoselov was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics since Brian Josephson in 1973, and in any field since Rigoberta Menchú (Peace) in 1992.
• 2010 Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion^[16]
• 2010 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry^[17]
• 2011 Honorary Doctorate from The University of Manchester
• 2011 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics^[18]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics". The Nobel Foundation. 5 October 2010. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/announcement.html. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
2. ^ "Nobel Prize wins for Royal Society Fellows". The Royal Society. 5 October 2005. http://royalsociety.org/News_WF.aspx?pageid=4294973256&terms=research+fellow&fragment=&SearchType=&terms=research_fellow. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
3. ^ "Dr. Kostya Novoselov". University of Manchester, Mesoscopic Physics Research Group. http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/People/KostyaNovoselov/KostyaNovoselov.html. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
4. ^ "Nobel Prize in Physics goes to ERC grantee Prof. Konstantin Novoselov". European Research Council. 5 October 2010. http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/Press_Release_Nobel_Prize_2010_ERC_Grantee.pdf. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 
5. ^ Overbye, Dennis (5 October 2010), "Physics Nobel Honors Work on Ultra-Thin Carbon Film.", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/science/06nobel.html?src=me .
6. ^ "Graphene pioneers bag Nobel prize", Physics World, 5 October 2010, http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/43939 .
7. ^ A. K. Geim et al. (2000). "Non-Quantized Penetration of Magnetic Field in the Vortex State of Superconductors". Nature 407. doi:10.1038/35024025. 
8. ^ K. S. Novoselov et al. (2003). "Subatomic Movements of a Domain Wall in the Peierls Potential". Nature 426 (6968): 812–816. arXiv:cond-mat/0312631. Bibcode 2003Natur.426..812N. doi:10.1038/nature02180. 
9. ^ A. K. Geim et al. (2003). "Microfabricated Adhesive Mimicking Gecko Foot-Hair". Nature Materials 2 (7): 461–463. Bibcode 2003NatMa...2..461G. doi:10.1038/nmat917. PMID 12776092. 
10. ^ A. K. Geim, K. S. Novoselov (2007). "The Rise of Graphene". Nature Materials 6 (3): 183–191. Bibcode 2007NatMa...6..183G. doi:10.1038/nmat1849. PMID 17330084. 
11. ^ "TR35 Young Innovator". Technology Review (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2008. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?TRID=732. 
12. ^ "Nicholas Kurti European Prize". http://www.oxinst.com/products/low-temperature/science-prize/european-prize/Pages/nicholas-kurti-european-prize.aspx. 
13. ^ "Technology Review-35 Young Innovator". http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/. 
14. ^ "Waters, Darren (2008) Nano switch hints at future chips". BBC News. 17 April 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7352464.stm. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
15. ^ "The IUPAP Young Scientist Prize". http://www.iupap.org/archiveyoungscientist.html. 
16. ^ ANP. "Lintje voor Nobelprijswinnaars" (in nl). Brabants Dagblad. http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/algemeen/bdbinnenland/7682670/Lintje-voor-Nobelprijswinnaars.ece. Retrieved 24 november 2010. 
17. ^ "Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry". http://www.rsc.org/Membership/AboutRscMembership/HonFRSC/index.asp. 
18. ^ "Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics". http://www.iop.org/about/awards/hon_fellowship/hon_fellows/page_38725.html. 

External links

• Interview in ScienceWatch on his research fields
• Portrait of Novoselov and Geim following the announcement of the Nobel Prize
• The paper announcing the discovery of graphene
• Selected research papers by Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim
• Russians scoop Nobel for creation of graphene

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Name	Novoselov, Konstantin
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Date of birth	23 August 1974
Place of birth	Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, USSR
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