Andre Geim
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Andre Geim | |
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| Born | October 1958 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russia and Netherlands |
| Known for | Work on graphene Levitating a frog Developing gecko tape |
| Awards | Ig Nobel Prize (2000) Mott Prize (2007) EuroPhysics Prize (2008) Körber Prize (2009) John J. Carty Award (2010) Hughes Medal (2010) Nobel Prize (2010) |
Andre Konstantinovich Geim FRS (‹See Tfd›Russian: "Андрей Константинович Гейм") is a Russian-born Dutch physicist[1] who is known for his work on graphene,[2][3] the development of gecko tape and demonstrations of diamagnetic levitation. On October 5, 2010, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Konstantin Novoselov, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."[4]
Education
Andre Geim was born in October 1958 in Sochi on the Black Sea coast of Russia; his parents were both engineers. In 1987 Geim completed his PhD at the Institute of Solid State Physics of The Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka, Russia. [5]
Career
Geim worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Microelectronics Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka and then as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham, the University of Bath and the University of Copenhagen before becoming an associate professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2001 he became a professor of physics at the University of Manchester and is director of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology. Since 2007 he has been an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow.[5][6] He is also a professor of innovative materials and nanoscience at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) since 2010.[7]
Geim holds the titles of Langworthy Professor and Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor.[5][8]
Research
His most notable achievements include the discovery of graphene, the development of a biomimetic adhesive which became known as gecko tape,[9] and research into diamagnetic levitation (which resulted in the famous flying frog experiment).[10] Geim is also an expert in mesoscopic physics and superconductivity.[5]
In 2001 Geim co-authored a research paper with his favourite hamster.[11]
Honours
The Institute of Physics (UK) awarded Geim 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 2009 he also received the Körber European Science Award. The US National Academy of Sciences honoured Geim 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 Geim's "revolutionary discovery of graphene and elucidation of its remarkable properties".
Geim was awarded honorary doctorates by Delft University, ETH Zürich and University of Antwerp.
Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize with Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University, for levitating the frog. His award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 made him the first person to win an Ig followed by the real version.
Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Konstantin Novoselov, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". In the first reactions, Geim said "I'm fine, I slept well. I didn't expect the Nobel Prize this year". He also mentioned that his plans for the day would not change – he said he would go back to work and carry on with his research papers.[12] Geim said that he hopes that graphene and other two-dimensional crystals will change everyday life as plastics did for humanity.[13]
References
- ^ Nobel Prize for Dutch physicist Andre Geim – website de Volkskrant (Dutch)
- ^ "October 22, 2004: Discovery of Graphene". APS News. October 2009.
- ^ Novoselov, K.S. et al.. Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films. Science 306, 666 (2004) doi:10.1126/science.1102896
- ^ "2010 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ a b c d "Geim's CV". Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ "nanotech.net". nanotech.net. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ Dr. Andre Geim benoemd tot hoogleraar Innovative Materials and Nanoscience – website Radboud University (Dutch)
- ^ "Top researchers receive Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Professorships". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ Black, Richard (1 June 2003). "Gecko inspires sticky tape". BBC News.
- ^ "The Frog That Learned to Fly; webpage in Holland". Ru.nl. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ A.K. Geim and H.A.M.S. ter Tisha, Physica B 294–295, 736–739 (2001) doi:10.1016/S0921-4526(00)00753-5
- ^ "Materials breakthrough wins Nobel". BBC. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ "Research into graphene wins Nobel Prize". CNN. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
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