Andre Geim
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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim FRS HonFRSC HonFInstP (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.[20]
Sir Andre Geim | |
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(1958-10-21) 21 October 1958 (age 65)[1] |
Nationality | Dutch and British |
Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
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Spouse | Irina Grigorieva[7][8] |
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Fields | Condensed matter physics |
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Thesis | Investigation of mechanisms of transport relaxation in metals by a helicon resonance method (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Victor Petrashov[11][12] |
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Website | condmat |
Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene.[21][22] He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. Geim had also been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize earlier in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the first and only individual, as of 2023, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes, for which he holds the Guinness World Record.