The 50 Best Moments For Women In 2011

[ via Huffington Post ] 1 Jan

We have been reporting about many events that happened in 2011 - but none have been exclusive for women so far, even when three women became Nobel laureates during the year.

Huffington Post has taken the lead and has shared the 50 best moments for women in 2011 in a slide show on their recent post.

Watch the slide show Here

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Knighthoods for Nobel-winning graphene pioneers

[ via BBC News Science & Environment  ] 31 Dec 2011

Graphene

Two Nobel laureates involved in the creation of graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, have received knighthoods in the New Year Honours.

Profs Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, from the University of Manchester, won the physics Nobel Prize in 2010 for their pioneering research.

Profs Geim and Novoselov, both originally from Russia, first worked together in the Netherlands before moving to the UK. They were based at the University of Manchester when they published their seminal research paper on graphene in October 2004.

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