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Andre Geim
Physicist

Andre Geim

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Isolating graphene with Konstantin Novoselov and colleagues.

Magnetic levitation · Graphene

Born
21 October 1958
Birthplace
Sochi

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Andre Geim

Andre Geim is a physicist who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments on graphene.

Early life

Education

Grew up in the Soviet Union, studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and completed his doctorate in 1987.

Career

  1. 1994

    Nijmegen

    Became an associate professor.

  2. 2001

    Manchester

    Joined the university’s physics faculty.

  3. 2010

    Nobel Prize

    Shared the award with Konstantin Novoselov.

Contributions

Magnetic levitation

Demonstrated diamagnetic levitation of a frog.

Graphene

Co-authored experiments on isolated atomically thin carbon layers.

Beyond research

Family

His wife and research collaborator Irina Grigorieva also joined Manchester in 2001.

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