Microscopic graphene flakes isolated in 2010—now worldwide research looks for practical applications
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Andre Konstantin Geim is the only person who ever received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. He was born in 1958 in Russia, and is a Dutch-British physicist with German, Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian roots. "Having lived and worked in several European countries, I consider myself European. I don't believe that any further taxonomy is necessary," he says. He is now a physics professor at the University of Manchester. He also is attached as professor by special appointment in innovative materials and nanoscience at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.