Physics
Andre Geim
Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for graphene
Born 1958
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«Polishing was dead, long live Scotch tape!»
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick that is the strongest material ever measured, using ordinary adhesive tape. He is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize.
Key achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physics, 2010, for isolating graphene
- Only person to hold both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel Prize
Universities
Manchester
Professor of physics since 2001, where he and Konstantin Novoselov isolated graphene in 2004.
Facts
- Graphene was isolated during Friday night experiments, an informal lab tradition of trying things unrelated to the main research.
- He won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for magnetically levitating a live frog, an experiment he insists was serious physics.
- He once listed his pet hamster as a co-author on a physics paper.
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