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Andre Geim
Born (1958-10-01) 1 October 1958 (age 66)
Sochi, Russian SFSR, USSR
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipNetherlands
Known forWork on graphene
Levitating a frog
Developing gecko tape
AwardsIg Nobel Prize (2000)
Mott Prize (2007)
EuroPhysics Prize (2008)
Körber Prize (2009)
John J. Carty Award (2010)
Hughes Medal (2010)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2010)
Scientific career
InstitutionsMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Manchester
Radboud University Nijmegen
Notable studentsKonstantin Novoselov

Andre Konstantinovich Geim, FRS (Template:Lang-ru) is a Russian-born Dutch physicist known for his work on graphene, the development of gecko tape, and research on diamagnetic levitation. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". Born in Sochi to an ethnic German family, he received his education in the Soviet Union, before taking various university posts in Europe and Russia.

Education

Geim was born on 1 October 1958 in Sochi, USSR, to an ethnic German father and an ethnic German-Jewish mother. His parents, Konstantin Alekseyevich Geim (1910–1998) and Nina Nikolayevna Bayer (1927–), were engineers. In 1964 the family moved to Nalchik, where he graduated from a specialized English-language high school, before entering the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the age of 17. As he was Jewish he was regarded as someone who would leave the country after finishing his education and consequently had to achieve particularly good results in the entrance exams. During the course he said he had to work extremely hard: "The pressure to work and to study was so intense that it was not a rare thing for people to break and leave, and some of them ended up with everything from schizophrenia to depression to suicide." He received an MSc in 1982, and in 1987 obtained a PhD in metal physics from the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Career

After his PhD Geim worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Microelectronics Technology at the Russian Academy of Sciences and from 1990 as a post-doctoral fellow at the universities of Nottingham, Bath, and Copenhagen. He got his first tenured position when he was appointed associate professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2001 he became Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, where he is director of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology. Since 2007 he has been an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow. In 2010 Radboud University Nijmegen appointed him as professor of innovative materials and nanoscience. He was awarded one of six Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorships.

Research

Geim's most notable achievements include the discovery of graphene, the development of a biomimetic adhesive which became known as gecko tape, and research into diamagnetic levitation (which resulted in the famous flying-frog experiment conducted in 1997). Geim is also an expert in mesoscopic physics and superconductivity. In 2001 Geim made his favourite hamster (named as H.A.M.S. ter Tisha) co-author in a research paper.

Honours

Magnetically levitating a live frog, an experiment that earned Andre Geim and Michael Berry the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize

Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics with Michael Berry for an experiment in which they magnetically levitated a live frog. In 2006 he appeared on the Scientific American 50. The Institute of Physics awarded him the 2007 Mott Medal and Prize "for his discovery of a new class of materials—free-standing two-dimensional crystals—in particular graphene". He shared the EuroPhysics Prize with Konstantin Novoselov "for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties". In 2007 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 2009 he received the Körber European Science Award. The National Academy of Sciences honoured him with the 2010 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science "for his experimental realization and investigation of graphene, the two-dimensional form of carbon". The Royal Society added its 2010 Hughes Medal "for his revolutionary discovery of graphene and elucidation of its remarkable properties". He was awarded honorary doctorates from Delft University of Technology, ETH Zürich, and the University of Antwerp.

On 5 October 2010 Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". He said, "I'm fine, I slept well. I didn't expect the Nobel Prize this year", and that his plans for the day would not change. He said he hopes that graphene and other two-dimensional crystals will change everyday life as plastics did for humanity. The award made him the first person to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize.

References

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  2. "Nederlander Andre Geim wint Nobelprijs" Template:Nl icon (Google Translate). de Volkskrant. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
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  4. "A physicist of many talents". Physics World. February 2006. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
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  7. Student's Certificate
  8. Physorg.com
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  15. Black, Richard. "Gecko inspires sticky tape". BBC News. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  16. "The Frog That Learned to Fly". Radboud University Nijmegen. Retrieved 19 October 2010. For Geim's account in Physics Today, see Geim, Andre. Template:PDFlink. Physics Today. September 1998. pp. 36–39. For the original experiment with Berry, see Berry, Michael; Geim, Andre. (1997). Template:PDFlink. European Journal of Physics 18: 307–313.
  17. A.K. Geim; H.A.M.S. ter Tisha. (2001). Physica B: Condensed Matter 294–295, 736–739. doi:10.1016/S0921-4526(00)00753-5
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  20. "Fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
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  22. "The Hughes Medal (1902)". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
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