Andre Geim
Langworthy & Royal Society Research Professor
Postal
Address: School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford
Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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10 of them are cited >1,000 times with one cited 10,000 times
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AWARDS
2011 Niels Bohr Medal for “outstanding contributions to the development of
physics”
2010 Nobel Prize “for
groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material
graphene”
2010 RS Hughes Medal for
“discovery of graphene and elucidation of its remarkable properties”
2010 NAS John J Carty Award for
“realization and investigation of graphene, the two-dimensional form of
carbon”
2009 Körber Science Prize for
“developing the first two-dimensional crystals made of carbon atoms”
2008 Europhysics Prize “for
discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon
(graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties“
2007 Mott Prize “for the
discovery of a new class of materials – 2D atomic crystals – particularly
graphene”
extras
2000 - IgNobel Prize for “levitating the frog”;
2006 - named among “Scientific American 50”
2009, 2010 & 2011 – repeatedly named by
Thomson-Reuters among top 10 most active researchers
Fellow of the Royal Society; Foreign Associate of
US National Academy Sciences; Corr. Member of the Dutch Academy
Hon Doctorates from Delft , ETH Zurich, Antwerp
& Manchester
Hon Prof of Moscow PhysTech, Nijmegen & CAS;
Hon Fellow of RSC, IoP UK & IoP Singapore
