Sir Andre Geim

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Sir Andre Geim

British-Dutch physicist

Also known as: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim

Written by Erik Gregersen

Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Category: Science & Tech

In full:: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim

Born:: October 21, 1958, Sochi, Russia, U.S.S.R. (age 65)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (2010)

Subjects Of Study:: graphene

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Sir Andre 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. Geim held dual citizenship in the Netherlands and Great Britain. Geim received a master’s degree from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (now the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) in 1982 and a doctoral degree from the Institute of Solid State Physics at Chernogolovka, near Moscow, in 1987. He was a research scientist at the Institute for Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials at ...(100 of 231 words)

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