Andre Geim
- January 4, 2024
- Physicist
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Andre Geim Biography
| Name | Andre Geim |
| Birthday | Oct 21 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | Russia |
| Birth Country | Russia |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
| Parents | Konstantin Alekseyevich Geim, Nina Nikolayevna Bayer |
| Spouse | Irina Grigorieva |
| Children(s) | Alexandra Geim |
Andre Geim is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on October 21, 1958 in Russia, Russia. Russian-born physicist who helped create graphine, which was the thinnest and strongest material at the time. He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the crystaline allotrope of carbon.
Ivan Pavlov was another well-known Russian scientist.
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм ; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
In 1965, the family moved to Nalchik, where he studied at a high school. After graduation, he applied to the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He took the entrance exams twice, but attributes his failure to qualify to discrimination on account of his German ethnicity. He then applied to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he was accepted.
His grandmother was Jewish, and he suffered discrimination because of his Jewish-sounding last name.
Andre Geim Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physicist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Andre Geim is one of the richest Physicist from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andre Geim 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He applied for study at the prestigious Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, but was turned down, twice.
He decided to pursue his work in physics outside of Russia because of the discrimination and bureaucracy he faced there.
Andre Geim was born to Konstantin Alekseyevich Geim and Nina Nikolayevna Bayer in Sochi, Russia, on 21 October 1958. Both his parents were engineers of German origin. His grandfather N.N. Bayer (Mykola Baier in Ukrainian) was a notable public figure in Ukraine of the early 20th century, one of its first nature conservationists and the first rector of Kaminiets-Podilskyi University.
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Who is Andre Geim Dating?
According to our records, Andre Geim married to Irina Grigorieva. As of December 1, 2023, Andre Geim’s is not dating anyone.
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Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics with Michael Berry for the frog experiment. He received it for using the magnetic properties of water scaling to levitate a small frog with magnets.
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Andre Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Andre Geim celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.
In 2001 he became a professor of physics at the University of Manchester, and was appointed director of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology in 2002. Geim’s wife and long-standing co-author, Irina Grigorieva, also moved to Manchester as a lecturer in 2001. The same year, they were joined by Novoselov who moved to Manchester from Nijmegen, which awarded him a PhD in 2004. Geim served as Langworthy Professor between 2007 and 2013, leaving this endowed professorship to Novoselov in 2012. Also, between 2007 and 2010 Geim was an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow before becoming one of Royal Society Research Professors.
What did Andre Geim do?
Sir Andre Geim, in full Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, (born October 21, 1958, Sochi, Russia, U.S.S.R.) , physicist who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with graphene. He shared the prize with his colleague and former student Konstantin Novoselov.
Who won both Nobel and Ig Nobel?
Sir Andre Geim FRS HonFRSC HonFInstP
Alma mater| Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for| Discovering graphene diamagnetic levitation Gecko tape
How did Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discover graphene?
That’s where Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov came in. They took a hunk of graphite and used Scotch tape to peel off layer after layer after layer. Geim and Novoselov then analyzed what they had left, and found graphene.
What was graphene first used for?
They isolated and identified single graphene sheets by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction in 1961. The term “graphene” was first used in 1987 to describe single sheets of graphite , and it was also used in early descriptions of carbon nanotubes.
Who first discovered graphene?
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