The Nobel Prize in Physics (and other ones too I suppose)

[Jack04]

The Nobel Prize in Physics has just been awarded to two researchers at the University of Manchester (which I happen to attend) for the creation of graphene in 2004. It's a fascinating material with some entirely bizarre properties. Anyway, sources:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/43939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

I have less interest in the other prizes but an up to date list of the winners along with information on the projects is running here.

... interestingly, the winner for the prize in medicine was also from the UK, where the government seems determined to slash funding. With any luck, these awards will go some way towards convincing them otherwise.

[Pavlik the Rus]

You know, our dear minister of education in ing goverment of Herr Putin, ing Fursenko, declared that "Soviet education was a garbage, we will reform this" We had a free education at any levels, but we will pay for everything.

Very sad for my country, wich still capable to create such genius as Geim and Novoselov, but can not handle with this.... This is not an oil or gas...
Very sad.

Meantime personally i am very glad for this two scientists

[Jack04]

I meant "based in the UK" not "from the UK", obviously.

[Vagn]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11472753

The Catholic Chuirch is not happy about the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to the pioneer of IVF treatment.

A Vatican official has said the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards is "completely out of order".
Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the award ignored the ethical questions raised by the fertility treatment.
He said IVF had led to the destruction of large numbers of human embryos.

Nearly four million babies have been born using IVF fertility treatment since 1978.
Monsignor Carrasco, the Vatican's spokesman on bio-ethics, said in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) had been "a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction".
But he said the Nobel prize committee's choice of Prof Edwards had been "completely out of order" as without his treatment, there would be no market for human eggs "and there would not be a large number of freezers filled with embryos in the world", he told Italy's Ansa news agency.
"In the best of cases they are transferred into a uterus but most probably they will end up abandoned or dead, which is a problem for which the new Nobel prize winner is responsible."
In his statement, Monsignor Carrasco stressed that he was speaking in a personal capacity.
The Nobel medicine prize committee in Sweden said Prof Edwards' work had brought "joy to infertile people all over the world".
"His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity, including more than 10% of all couples worldwide," it said.
Prof Edwards efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of the world's first "test tube baby", Louise Brown, in July 1978.
Ms Brown said the award was "fantastic news".
"Me and mum are so glad that one of the pioneers of IVF has been given the recognition he deserves," she said.
"We hold Bob in great affection and are delighted to send our personal congratulations to him and his family at this time."

[mp0295]

I found a Nobel prize is physics winners name under my old chem desk.

[vlach]

at least there is something worthy of a nobel prize in physics nowdays