Quotes: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded

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Russian-born scientist Andre Geim is seen in this undated handout photograph received in London on October 5, 2010. Geim and his Russian-born colleague, Konstantin Novoselov, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for experiments with super-thin carbon matter, the prize committee said on Tuesday.

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“Carbon, the basis of all known life on earth, has surprised us once again.”

— STATEMENT from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gave the Nobel Prize in physics to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from the U.K’s University of Manchester, who investigated the properties of graphene, ultra-thin flakes of carbon (via New York Times)