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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Born 21 October 1958 · Q104104
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“I can offer no nice words for the EU framework programmes [for research] which ... can be praised only by Europhobes for discrediting the whole idea of an effectively working Europe.”
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Geim automatically lost his Dutch citizenship due to his dual British nationality
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EurekAlert!: Andre Geim, University of Manchester (IMAGE)
Won Carbon Medal (2016).
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For Desert Island Discs, a popular BBC radio programme
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Won Copley Medal (2013).
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Career landmark: Regius Professor of Physics (2013).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2011).
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Geim became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
Physics World: Andre Geim explores the flatland
Scientific American: Physics Nobel Prize Goes to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for Graphene's Unusual and Useful Properties
New Scientist: Andre Geim: Why graphene is the stuff of the future
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2010).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp (2010).
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Won Hughes Medal (2010).
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Awarded John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (2010).
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“s choice of Chinese dissident, the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo, as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was patronising, saying”
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Issued by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East protesting an international initiative to boycott Israeli academics, institutions, and research centers
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“Frankly, I value both my Ig Nobel prize and Nobel prize at the same level and for me Ig Nobel prize was the manifestation that I can take jokes, a little bit of self-deprecation always helps.”
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Geim was appointed as Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion for his contribution to Dutch Science
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Awarded Körber European Science Prize (2009).
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Nanowerk: Andre Geim receives 2009 Koerber European Science Award
Published “The electronic properties of graphene” in Reviews of Modern Physics — cited 22,743 times.
Received the Körber European Science Award
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Published “Graphene: Status and Prospects” in Science — cited 13,014 times.
Nanowerk: Andre Geim receives Koerber European Science Award for graphene work
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2008).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2007).
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Won Nevill Mott Medal and Prize (2007).
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Published “The rise of graphene” in Nature Materials — cited 37,388 times.
Career landmark: Langworthy Professor (2007–2013).
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Appeared on the Scientific American 50
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Published “Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers” in Physical Review Letters — cited 13,836 times.
Published “Two-dimensional atomic crystals” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 10,914 times.
Published “Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene” in Nature — cited 19,993 times.
Published “Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films” in Science — cited 62,407 times.
Became a professor of physics at the University of Manchester, and was appointed director of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology in 2002
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Awarded Ig Nobel Prize (2000).
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For levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism
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Into the possible effects of magnetism on water scaling led to the famous discovery of direct diamagnetic levitation of water, and led to a frog being levitated
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When he was appointed associate professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he worked on mesoscopic superconductivity
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And a Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent) degree in metal physics in 1987 from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Chernogolovka
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The family moved to Nalchik, where he studied at a high school
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Born 1958-10-21.
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