Andre Geim
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Andre Geim is a Russian-born physicist who works in the Netherlands and Britain, conducting research at the intersection of physics and materials science. His work matters because it has contributed to advances in understanding and manipulating materials at very small scales, which has potential applications in technology and science.
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- 1958-10-21
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- Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films
· 2004 · cited 61,724x
- The rise of graphene
· 2007 · cited 37,036x
- The electronic properties of graphene
· 2009 · cited 22,454x
- Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene
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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. At that time he was a Dutch citizen. He later became a British citizen to accept a knighthood and considered himself Dutch-British. Geim is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. Geim was previously awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the first and only individual, as of 2025, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes, for which he holds a Guinness World Record.
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1958 births20th-century Dutch physicists20th-century Russian physicists21st-century British inventors21st-century British physicists21st-century Dutch inventorsAcademics of the University of ManchesterAcademic staff of Radboud University NijmegenBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish nanotechnologistsBritish Nobel laureatesCarbon scientists