Nobel document triggers debate

摘要

Controversy surfaced last week over a document issued by the Nobel Committee for Physics to explain its awarding of the 2010 prize, leaving the committee on the defensive. It is scrambling to correct errors while standing by the process underlying its decision.rnLast month, the committee awarded the prize to Andre Geim and Konstantin Nov-oselov at the University of Manchester, UK, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". The novel material - composed of a single crystalline layer of carbon atoms - could have a host of applications, from touch screens to transistors.