Kostya Novoselov
About the Artist
Konstantin Novoselov is a Russian-British artist, physicist, laureate of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is engaged in research in the field of mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. In 2004, together with Andre Geim, he discovered a new allotropic modification of carbon – graphene – which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. As an artist, he performs under the name Kostya Novoselov.