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Professor Andre Geim, FRS

Professor Andre Geim, FRS

Langworthy & Royal Society (2010 Anniversary) Research Professor

Postal Address:

School of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL, UK

 

Factual Summary

downloadable full CV and list of publications

Awards

2010 Nobel Prize for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"

2010 Royal Society Hughes Medal for "discovery of graphene and elucidation of its remarkable properties"

2010 NAS John J Cart Award for "the realisation and investigation of graphene, the two-dimensional form of carbon"

2009 Korber Prize for "developing the first two-dimensional crystals made of carbon atoms"

2008 Europhysics Prize for "discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties" (shared with Novoselov)

2007 Mott Prize for "the discovery of a new class of materials 2D atomic crystals particularly graphene"

Extras

2000 IgNobel Prize for "levitating the frogs" (shared with Michael Berry).

2009, 2010 & 2011 – repeatedly named by Thomson-Reuters among top 10 most active researchers

Fellow of the Royal Society; Hon Doctorates from Delft, ETH Zurich, Antwerp & Manchester

Dutch Academy of Sciences; Hon Professsor at Moscow PhysTech, Nijmegen & CAS; Hon Fellow of RSC, IoP UK & Sinagapore.

more personal: Science Watch (2008), Scientific Computing (2006) and Physics World (2006)

In The News

BBC News Technology 2011 Why UK is investing in 'miracle material' graphene. Newsnight's Susan Watts reports News Technology

Science Watch 2010 For the 3rd year running, Andre is officially one of the worlds 'hottest scientists'. See ScienceWatch

Bioreactor
A reminder of Andre's 'levitation of a frog'.
Interview on BBC Radio New Material 'stronger than diamond'. Andre talks to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4

Nobel Lecture Andre delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2010,  Random Walk to Graphene

Interview with the 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics,  Interview, December 2010

Interview with Nature News about why Graphene deserves the Nobel Prize, October 2010; Interview with Geoff Brumfeil