Andre Geim
Andre Geim
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstPis a Soviet-born Dutch-British physicist working in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 October 1958
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Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.
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The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!
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Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
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The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.
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Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.
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Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
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I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.
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When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.