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Andre Geim

1958 - Today

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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born 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. At that time he had a Dutch passport. He lost his Dutch nationality when he became a British citizen in the second decade of the 21st century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andre Geim is the 309th most popular physicist (down from 303rd in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Russia (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Physicist.

Andre Geim is most famous for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his discovery of graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of graphite that is very light and flexible.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Andre Geim ranks 309 out of 851. Before him are Henry Way Kendall, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, Alain Aspect, and Rainer Weiss. After him are Otto Robert Frisch, Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Steven Chu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Andre Geim ranks 42. Before him are Michael Flynn, Hugo Sánchez, Anne L'Huillier, Annette Bening, Andie MacDowell, and Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. After him are Angela Bassett, Giancarlo Esposito, Tzipi Livni, Chris Columbus, Robert Patrick, and Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andre Geim ranks 387 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Kuleshov (1899), Sergei Skripal (1951), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), and Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888). After him are Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Andrei Bely (1880), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), and Viktor Tsoi (1962).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Andre Geim ranks 15. Before him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), and Yuri Oganessian (1933). After him are Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Vladimir Fock (1898), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Boris Podolsky (1896), and Anatoli Bugorski (1942).

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