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
-  published over 180 peer-refereed papers  (see selected publications)
- more than 30 papers cited >100 times with 3 cited >1,000 times
- according to ScienceWatch, responsible for initiating two news research fronts
  (graphene & gecko tape)
- also, notoriously ;-) known for levitating the frog                                               
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.
more personal: Science Watch (2008), Scientific Computing (2006) and Physics World (2006)
downloadable CV and list of publications