Graphene and ribosome Nobellists honoured with UK knighthoods
Britain’s honours system seems to be making a special effort to recognize scientists this year. The three most recent Nobel prize winners to work in the UK – Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at Manchester University, and Venki Ramakrishnan at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge – have all been granted knighthoods in the 2012 New Year’s honours list, announced on 31 December. Read more
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