Konstantin Novoselov

Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian-British physicist born in Nizhny Tagil in 1974. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and took his doctorate at Radboud University in Nijmegen under Andre Geim. Working with Geim at the University of Manchester, he isolated graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon, and the two shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for it. He was the first director of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, where he is Langworthy Professor, and since 2019 he has also worked at the National University of Singapore.