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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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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When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.