Andre Geim facts for kids

Sir Andre Geim
Quick facts for kids Sir Andre Geim
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Born	Andrei Konstantinovich Geim; Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; ; 21 October 1958 (age 63); Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Dutch and British
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for	Discovering graphene; diamagnetic levitation; Gecko tape;
Spouse(s)	Irina Grigorieva
Awards	Ig Nobel Prize (2000); Mott Medal (2007); EuroPhysics Prize (2008); Körber Prize (2009); John J. Carty Award (2010); Hughes Medal (2010); Nobel Prize in Physics (2010); Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion; Knight Bachelor (2012); Copley Medal (2013); Carbon Medal (2016); Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Institute of Solid State Physics; Russian Academy of Sciences; University of Manchester; Radboud University Nijmegen;
Thesis	Investigation of mechanisms of transport relaxation in metals by a helicon resonance method (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Victor Petrashov
Doctoral students	Soren Neubeck; Konstantin Novoselov; Rashid Jalil; Da Jiang; Rahul Raveendran-Nair; Ibtsam Riaz; Gareth Young;

Sir Andre K. Geim FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. Sir Andre Geim had also been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize earlier in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the only individual, as of 2020, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes.