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Graphene researcher claims Nobel committee made mistakes

NOV 19, 2010
Physics Today
Nature : A high-profile graphene researcher, Walt de Heer of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has written to the Nobel Prize committee for physics, objecting to errors in its explanation of this year’s prize, writes Eugenie Samuel Reich in Nature. De Heer sees a series of errors that he believes overplay the significance of prize recipients Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov’s work at the expense of other researchers. He also claims that other mistakes downplay the work of Philip Kim of Columbia University, whom many researchers think should have shared the prize. The committee is now correcting several points in its document raised by De Heer’s letter.
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