Russian-born duo share Nobel Prize for Physics

• Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
• The two were awarded for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
• Mr. Geim, a Dutch citizen, and Novoselov who has dual British-Russian citizenship are both from the University of Manchester in Britain.
• The physics prize was the second of the Nobel awards to be announced this year. The medicine prize was awarded to British researcher Robert Edwards a pioneer of in vitro fertilisation.