Game over

Laureates of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, students of the national scientific school, working in Manchester, Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, said that they do not intend to work in the Skolkovo innovation city. In an interview with the Russian News Service, Game said that he was not interested in this, and added: “Have your people gone completely crazy there?” Novoselov, in an interview with Radio Liberty, admitted that he was much more comfortable and comfortable in a small laboratory than in some large organization whose structure was unfamiliar to him.

At the same time, Novoselov plans to fly to Moscow at the end of October for a conference on nanotechnology (although he does not plan to live in Russia). But Game said in an interview with Channel One that several years ago he was unable to come to Russia. They refused to give him a visa by mail, but wanted him to come to the embassy.

Meanwhile, an attack on the newly-minted laureates was launched by the neo-alchemist Viktor Petrik, beloved by United Russia (and not at all loved by the Academy of Sciences). In an interview with the United Russian Portal, he announced that graphene, for the discovery of which Geim and Novoselov were awarded a prize, was in fact discovered by him, and these, they say, renegades only began further research. And the reason for their success and failure, according to the fighter for clean water, is that the Academy of Sciences “does not favor strangers.” “Anyone could have taken my discovery, and this happened,” said an offended Petrik. However, he claims that his discovery was nevertheless registered by the International Association of Authors of Scientific Discoveries on January 3, 2001.