Sunday, October 10, 2010

From IgNoble to Nobel






Interesting to see that AndrĂ© Geim, the scientist mentioned in one my first posts here for being awarded the Ignoble prize for improbable research, has now received the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on the properties of graphene. 

Here Geim explains how big business could prevent him from patenting graphene while here he talks about the serendipitous nature of the discovery.