Andre Geim  FRS
Langworthy & Royal Society (2010 Anniversary) Research Professor 
Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology
Chair of Condensed Matter Physics
Postal Address: School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
factual summary
-  published over 150 peer-refereed papers including 14 Nature and Science articles and more than 20 papers in PRL and Nature Mater, Physics & Nano (see current research & selected publications)
- more than 25 papers are cited >100 times with 3 cited >1,000 times
- according to ScienceWatch, is responsible for initiating two research fronts (graphene & gecko tape)
- also, notoriously ;-) known for levitating the frog                                               
awards
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 Doctorates (“doctor honoris causa”) from the Delft University and ETH Zurich
Named among “Scientific American 50” in 2006; 2000 IgNobel Prize for “levitating frogs” (shared with Michael Berry)
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).
more personal: Science Watch (2008), Scientific Computing (2006) and Physics World (2006)
downloadable full CV and list of publications