Andre Geim. Biography. Photo. Andrey Geim and Konstantin Novoselov: "new Russian" Nobel laureates Andrey Geim: biography

(10) Soviet, Dutch and British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 (together with Konstantin Novoselov), member of the Royal Society of London (since 2007), known primarily as one of the developers of the first method for producing graphene. On December 31, 2011, by decree of Queen Elizabeth II, for services to science, he was awarded the title of knight bachelor with the official right to add the title "sir" to his name

"Biography"

Born in 1958 in Sochi, in a family of engineers of German origin (the only exception known to Geim among his German ancestors was his maternal great-great-grandmother, who was Jewish). Game considers himself European and believes that he does not need a more detailed "taxonomy". In 1964 the family moved to Nalchik.
Father, Konstantin Alekseevich Game (1910-1998), since 1964 he worked as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there. Mother's half-brother is the famous theoretical physicist Vladimir Nikolaevich Bayer, son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bayer, grandfather of Andrey Geim.

Education

In 1975, Andrey Geim graduated from secondary school No. 3 in the city of Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but unsuccessfully (the German origin of the applicant was an obstacle). Returning to Nalchik, he worked for 8 months at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant. At this time, he met V. G. Petrosyan and took intensive training in physics from him. In 1976 he entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Until 1982, he studied at the Faculty of General and Applied Physics, graduated with honors (“four” in the diploma only in the political economy of socialism) and entered graduate school. In 1987, he received a PhD in physics and mathematics from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Andrey Geim's wife spoke about what Russian science lacks

MOSCOW, October 21 - RIA Novosti. Irina Grigorieva, Russian-British physicist and wife of Andrey Geim, spoke about what Russian science lacks, what unites it with British science and shared her thoughts on what discoveries in the field of studying the properties of graphene, “Nobel carbon”, await us in the near future .

Chemists, physicists, and other representatives of the natural sciences have long believed that only fully three-dimensional materials that have height, width, and length can exist in nature.

Andrey Geim congratulated Sergeyev on his election as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrei Geim, Nobel Prize winner in physics, congratulated Academician Alexander Sergeev on his election as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergeev was elected at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences last Tuesday, and the day before, Russian President Vladimir Putn approved his appointment.

“I wish him all the best and can only hope that he will be able to shift the balance in the Academy from the “Club of Outstanding Managers” towards the “Club of Outstanding Scientists,” Game told Gazeta.Ru.

Nobel Week kicks off with awards in medicine

The winners in physics and chemistry will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, and on Friday, October 6, the Peace Prize winner will be announced in Oslo

MOSCOW, 2 October. /TASS/. Nobel Week will begin on October 2 with the announcement of the name of the laureate of the award in the field of physiology and medicine, according to the award website.

The winners in physics and chemistry will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, and on Friday, October 6, the Peace Prize winner will be announced in Oslo. The new winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, which was established by the Bank of Sweden, will be announced on October 9 in Stockholm.

Nobel laureate Andrei Geim: The townsfolk will kill humanity in 50 years

The famous physicist, discoverer of graphene, winner of the Nobel and even Ig Nobel Prizes, knight of the British Empire Andrey Geim left Russia long ago and works in the largest Western scientific centers. Last week, he unexpectedly arrived in Moscow to support Minister Dmitry Livanov, who came under fire from criticism, in particular, he took part in a meeting of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science and became its honorary chairman. At the end of the Moscow mission, the Nobel laureate told RBC correspondent Kirill Sirotkin about strange democracy, cheerleaders, swollen brains, stagnation and the townsfolk threatening the death of humanity, as well as about the kickbacks of Rosnano, Skolkovo money, the prospects of graphene and three-dimensional Lego.
link: http://top.rbc.ru/viewpoint/ 04/06/2013/860500.shtml

Nobel laureate Andrei Geim came to Moscow to support Livanov

Andrei Geim, who discovered graphene together with Konstantin Novoselov, agrees with Dmitry Livanov: the Russian Academy of Sciences “looks like a nursing home.”
link: http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/608636/

Nobel laureate Andrey Geim arrived in Russia

On May 28, Andrey Geim, Nobel Prize winner in physics, arrived in Russia. According to Kommersant, at the invitation of the head of the Ministry of Defense Science Dmitry Livanov, Game will take part in a meeting of the public council under the ministry.
link: http://www.polit.ru/news/2013/05/28/geim/

Nobel Laureate Andrei Geim called the Academy of Sciences a "nursing home"

Speaking on Wednesday at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences in support of the RAS presidential candidate Zhores Alferov, Academician Alexander Aseev (Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) sharply condemned the position of Nobel laureate Andrei Geim: “Yesterday the Public Council replaced Zhores Ivanovich with Geim. He suggested that there are now essentially two ministries of science in the country: the Ministry of Education and Science itself and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and sooner or later the situation should be resolved in favor of one. He literally nailed the Russian Academy of Sciences, saying that this is a nursing home.”
link: http://www.mk.ru/science/ article

Nobel laureate in bioinformatics Andrey Geim arrived in Russia

The Nobel laureate in physics Andrei Geim, who arrived in Russia, supported the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov in his conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
link: http://www.og.ru/news/2013/05/29/69237.shtml

Nobel laureate A. Game became the honorary chairman of the public council of the Ministry of Education and Science.

A native of the USSR, Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrey Geim has been appointed Honorary Chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science (Ministry of Education and Science) of the Russian Federation. This decision was made today at a meeting of the members of the Council.
link: http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/ 20130528210003.shtml

Nobel Laureate Game: Novosibirsk Academgorodok is an Exception for Russian Science

Former Russian scientist, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 2010 Andrey Geim, who works in the UK and the Netherlands, sided with the Ministry of Education and Science in a conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the scientist, which he expressed at a meeting of the council at the Ministry of Education and Science, the Russian Academy of Sciences is similar to a "nursing home", and in Russian universities the "kindergarten" level of science. Game considered only the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, MIPT and MISiS as an exception, writes RBC.
link: http://sib.fm/news/2013/05/29/iskljuchenie-dlja-rossijskoj-nauki

Nobel laureate Geim sided with the Ministry of Education and Science in a conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrey Geim, who became the honorary chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science, said that he supports the head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov in reforming the system of Russian academic science, Interfax reports.

“Instead of swearing, polarizing, saying ‘give us more money – we will throw hats on them’, we need to get together, rebuild the system,” Game said on Tuesday following a meeting of the public council under the Ministry of Education and Science.
link: http://www.aif.ru/society/news/379139

Nobel Prize Winner Game Arrives in Russia
Nobel laureate Andrei Geim arrived in Russia. One of the discoverers of graphene intends to take part in a meeting of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science. The scientist can also give a lecture to the students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, of which he is a graduate.
link: http://fedpress.ru/news/society/news_society/ 1369731514-laureat-nobelevskoi-premii-geim-pribyl-v-rossiyu

Energetik Fortov won the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the Nobel laureate

Immediately after the announcement of the voting results, Fortov announced that the Russian Academy of Sciences was aimed at change, would become a generator of new ideas and projects, would begin a fight against internal bureaucracy, and declared his readiness for a dialogue with the head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Livanov. At the same time, he promised that he would ask the Nobel laureate Andrei Geim why he called the RAS a "nursing home."
link: http://news.mail.ru/politics/ 13293913/

Nobel Prize winner Game hopes his experience will be useful in Russia

Physicist Andrey Geim arrived in Russia today and, at the invitation of the Minister of Education, Dmitry Livanov, took part in the meeting.
link: http://www.rusnovosti.ru/news/264163/

Andrey Game - Honorary Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science

Andrey Geim became the honorary chairman of the OS under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia

Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, announced on his Twitter that Andrei Geim, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in physics, agreed to become the honorary chairman of the Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Evgeny Yamburg, director of the Moscow Education Center No. 109, and Stanislav Smirnov, an employee of St. Petersburg State University, became co-chairs.
link: http://strf.ru/material.aspx? CatalogId=221&d_no=56824

Andrey Game sided with Livanov in a conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences

In the ongoing conflict between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Nobel laureate in physics Andrey Geim sided with the Ministry and supported Minister Dmitry Livanov.
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Father, Konstantin Alekseevich Game (1910-1998), since 1964 he worked as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there. Mother's half-brother is the famous theoretical physicist Vladimir Nikolaevich Bayer, son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bayer, grandfather of Andrey Geim.

Until 1982, he studied at the Faculty of General and Applied Physics, graduated with honors (“four” in the diploma only in the political economy of socialism) and entered graduate school. In 1987, he received a PhD in physics and mathematics from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and at the Institute for Problems of Microelectronics Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1990 he received a scholarship from the Royal Society of England and left the Soviet Union. He worked at the University of Nottingham, the University of Bath (English) Russian., and also briefly at the University of Copenhagen, before becoming an assistant professor at the University of Nijmegen, and since 2001 - at the University of Manchester. He is currently Head of the Manchester Center for "Meso-Science and Nanotechnology", as well as Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

Honorary doctorates from the Delft University of Technology, the ETH Zurich and the University of Antwerp. He has the title of "Professor Langworthy" of the University of Manchester (Eng. Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

In 2008, he received an offer to head one of the Max Planck Institutes in Germany, but refused.

On December 31, 2011, by decree of Queen Elizabeth II, for services to science, he was awarded the title of knight bachelor with the official right to add the title "sir" to his name.

Scientific achievements

Geim's achievements include the creation of a biomimetic adhesive (glue), later known as gecko tape.

The experiment with diamagnetic levitation is also widely known, including the famous “flying frog”, for which Game, together with the famous mathematician and theorist Sir Michael Berry from the University of Bristol, received the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000.

In 2004, Andrey Geim, together with his student Konstantin Novoselov, invented a technology for producing graphene, a new material that is a monatomic layer of carbon. As it turned out in the course of further experiments, graphene has a number of unique properties: it has increased strength, conducts electricity as well as copper, surpasses all known materials in thermal conductivity, is transparent to light, but at the same time dense enough not to miss even helium molecules. are the smallest molecules in existence. All this makes it a promising material for a number of applications, in particular, the creation of touch screens, light panels and, possibly, solar panels.

Some publications

Andre K Geim. Nobel Lecture: Random walk to graphene // Rev. Mod. Phys.. - 2011. - Vol. 83. - P. 851-862. - DOI:10.1103/RevModPhys.83.851.

Russian translation: A. K. Game. Random walks: an unpredictable path to graphene // Phys. - 2011. - T. 181. - S. 1284-1298.

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Place of Birth: Sochi

Family status: married to Irina Grigorieva

Activities and Interests: solid state physics, nanotechnology, magnetic levitation, mountain tourism

Discoveries

He created a biomimetic adhesive - an adhesive material without sticky substances.

Conducted a unique experiment with diamagnetic levitation, better known as the "flying frog experiment". The scientist managed to hang the frog in the air without the use of cables, mirrors and manual dexterity. Gravity was defeated by a balanced magnetic field (previously all attempts were to turn off gravity from the source). The experiment was repeated with grasshoppers, fish, mice and plants. Experiments have proven that thanks to diamagnetism, any living creature can be lifted into the air.

In 2004, together with his student Konstantin Novoselov, he proved the possibility of synthesizing graphene, a new substance one atom thick with unique properties: increased strength, high electrical conductivity, transparency and, at the same time, high density. Currently, graphene (provided that the industrial technology is established) is the most promising material in the field of microelectronics.

Biography

Dutch physicist of Russian origin, professor, member of the Royal Society of London, one of the discoverers of graphene (together with Konstantin Novoselov), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Born in Sochi, in a family of engineers. He graduated from high school in Nalchik, worked at an electrovacuum plant, then entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He graduated from the Faculty of General and Applied Physics, in 1987 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and began working as a researcher. In 1990, having received a scholarship from the English Royal Society, he left to work at the University of Nottingham. He also worked at the University of Bath (Great Britain), at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Neugemen (Netherlands). He is currently in charge of the Manchester Center for Meso-Science and Nanotechnology and head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics there. Honorary Doctor of the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), ETH Zurich, University of Antwerp, has the title of "Professor Langworthy" of the University of Manchester. Citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Andrei Konstantinovich Geim was born on October 21, 1958 in Sochi. His parents, Konstantin Alekseevich Geim and Nina Nikolaevna Bayer, were engineers, Volga Germans by nationality. From 1965 to 1975 Game lived and studied at school number 3 in Nalchik, which he graduated with a gold medal. After leaving school, he tried to enter the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), but they refused to accept him there because of his nationality. Therefore, he worked for one year as a mechanic at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant, whose chief engineer was his father. In 1976, Game again received a refusal from MEPhI and entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he defended his diploma in 1982. After that, Geim began working as a graduate student at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ISSP), where in 1987 he defended his Ph.D. and high-purity materials in Chernogolovka, created on the basis of the Institute of Solid State Physics. In Chernolovka, Geim was engaged in metal physics, which, in his own words, quickly got tired of him.

In 1990, Game went to the UK for an internship at the University of Nottingham and no longer worked in the USSR and Russia. In 1992, he studied science at the University of Bath (University of Bath), from 1993 to 1994 he worked at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). In 1994 Geim became a researcher and since 2000 a professor at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He received the citizenship of this country, renouncing the Russian one and correcting his name to Andre Geim. In parallel, from 1998 to 2000 Game was a special professor at the University of Nottingham.

In 2000, Game, along with Michael Berry, received the Ig Nobel (anti-Nobel) Prize for a 1997 article describing an experiment in the field of diamagnetic levitation - the co-authors achieved the levitation of a frog using a superconducting magnet. The press also noted that Game managed to create an adhesive tape that acts on the sticking mechanisms of a gecko, and in 2001 he included the hamster "Tishu" (H.A.M.S. ter Tisha) as a co-author of one article.

In 2000, Game and his wife received an invitation to the University of Manchester and left the Netherlands a year later, leaving a negative review of the local scientific environment. He became professor of physics at the University of Manchester, a post he held until 2007. In 2002, he headed the department of condensed matter physics, as well as the Center for Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology (Centre for Mesoscience & Nanotechnology) of this university. Since 2007 he has held the position of Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester.

In 2004, Game, together with his student Konstantin Novoselov, discovered graphene, a two-dimensional layer of graphite one atom thick, which has good thermal conductivity, high mechanical rigidity, and other useful properties. In 2007, for this discovery, Game was awarded the Mott Prize of the International Institute of Physics (Institute of Physics), and in 2009 became a professor at the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. In 2010, Game received the John J Carty Award from the US National Academy of Sciences and the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society of Great Britain.

In 2006, Scientific American included Geim in the list of the 50 most influential scientists in the world, and in 2008 Russian Newsweek named Geim one of the ten most talented Russian emigrant scientists. By 2010, Geim had published more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications.

In October 2010, Game and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their seminal experiments with the two-dimensional material graphene".

After the news about the awarding of the Nobel Prize to immigrants from Russia, they were invited to work in Russia at the Skolkovo innovation center, but Game said in an interview that he was not going to return to his homeland: “Staying in Russia was the same as spending my life fighting against windmills, and work is a hobby for me, and I absolutely did not want to spend my life on mouse fuss. At the same time, he called himself in an interview "European and 20 percent Kabardino-Balkarian." Despite his reluctance to return to Russia, he noted the high quality of fundamental education at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: in 2006, Game said that those parts of the brain that he had lost due to alcohol libations after exams at the institute were replaced by parts occupied by the information received at the institute, which he never needed. He also collaborated with the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka, where they investigated the possibility of creating a graphene transistor.