Kostya Novoselov, 34

摘要

In 2004., Manchester University fellow Kostya Novoselov discovered graphene, a fundamentally new molecule that may revolutionize computing. Physicists had previously speculated about the material, theorizing that it could be made into transistors more than a hundred times as fast as today's silicon devices. But until Novoselov found and tested it, some thought the essentially two-dimensional material would be unstable.