Andre Geim
FRS
Langworthy & Royal Society (2010
Anniversary) Research Professor
Director
of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology
Postal Address:
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
factual summary
- more than 30 papers cited >100 times with 3 cited >1,000 times
- according to ScienceWatch, responsible for initiating two news research fronts
awards
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“ (shared with Kostya Novoselov)
2007 Mott Prize “for the discovery of a new
class of materials – 2D atomic crystals – particularly graphene”
extras
honorary PhD (“doctor honoris
causa”) from Delft University, ETH Zurich & University of Antwerp
named among “Scientific
American 50” in 2006; 2000 IgNobel Prize for “levitating frogs” (shared with Michael Berry)
one of top 5 “hottest
researchers” who according to Reuters published most-cited recent papers (2009
& 2010)
research on mesoscopic
superconductivity was chosen twice by AIP among 50 annual highlights (1998
& 1999)
“Einstein Professor” of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009); Honorary Fellow of Singapore Institute of
Physics;
Fellow of the Institute of
Physics (UK); EPSRC Senior Fellow (2008-2010); Honorary Professor of the
Nijmegen University.
