Awards & Winners

Andre Geim

Date of Birth 21-October-1958
Place of Birth Sochi
(Russia, Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai)
Nationality Netherlands, United Kingdom
Profession Physicist, Scientist, Professor
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working 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 Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology.

Awards by Andre Geim

Check all the awards nominated and won by Andre Geim.

2013


Copley Medal
(For his numerous scientific contributions and, in particular, for initiating research on two\u2010dimensional atomic crystals and their artificial heterostructures.)

2010


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene)
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
(Physics. For his experimental realization and investigation of graphene, the two-dimensional form of carbon.)
Hughes Medal
(for his revolutionary discovery of graphene, and elucidation of its remarkable properties)

2000


Ig Nobel Prize in Physics
(using magnets to levitate a frog and a sumo wrestler)