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- 1Vitaly Ginzburg's birthday marked on October 4▼October 4: Vitaly Ginzburg's birthday, a physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
October 4 marks the birthday of Vitaly Ginzburg, the Soviet and Russian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. He is remembered for fundamental work in superconductivity, the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasma, and his contributions to the Soviet hydrogen bomb project. Anniversary coverage is recalling his scientific legacy.
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Russian physicists report the discovery of an unusual property of graphene oxide membranes, according to a Russian news report. The finding concerns the behaviour of these ultra-thin carbon-based membranes, which are widely studied for uses such as filtration and separation technologies. Details of the research, including where it was published and what the property could mean for applications, were not provided in the available report.