{"id":4404,"date":"2010-10-05T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2010-10-05T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:11:08","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physics-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/10\/05\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physics 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel prize in physics for 2010 goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2010\/\">Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov<\/a> for their discovery of a method for obtaining samples of graphene, a single atom thick layer of carbon atoms.  In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, studying the unusual properties of graphene has taken over large portions of condensed matter physics \ud83d\ude42  Today, somewhere out there, there is a very very very proud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0921452600007535\">hamster<\/a> (via Michael and NPR.)  Oh, and look at the age of Konstantin Novoselov.  Score one for the young&#8217;uns!<br \/>\nOh and note that the original paper describing the method was rejected by Nature but accepted by Science (according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/06\/science\/06nobel.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">NYTimes<\/a>.)  I wrote that last sentence only because I find it funny for something to be rejected by nature but accepted by science \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel prize in physics for 2010 goes to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their discovery of a method for obtaining samples of graphene, a single atom thick layer of carbon atoms. In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, studying the unusual properties of graphene has taken over large portions of condensed matter physics \ud83d\ude42 Today, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/10\/05\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nobel Prize in Physics 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}