When Professor Konstantin "Kostya" Novoselov gives a talk, he never makes any mention of the Nobel Prize in Physics that he was awarded in 2010, when he was just 36.
Yes, the top award is special, he admits, but the man behind the supermaterial graphene does not really think about it.
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