When a game wins a Nobel Prize. Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov: “new Russian” Nobel laureates. The path to recognition

04.04.2020

Biography

Born in 1958 in Sochi, in a family of engineers of German origin with Jewish roots on his mother’s side. In 1964, the family moved to Nalchik.

Father, Konstantin Alekseevich Geim (1910-1998), since 1964 worked as chief engineer of the Nalchik Electric Vacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there.

In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated with a gold medal high school No. 3 of the city of Nalchik and tried to enter MEPhI, but was unsuccessful (the obstacle was the applicant’s German origin). After working for 8 months at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant, 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 (“B” in his diploma only in the political economy of socialism) and entered graduate school. In 1987 he received a Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Have worked research fellow at the Institute of Physics and Technology 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 fellowship from the Royal Society of England and left Soviet Union. He worked at the University of Nottingham and also briefly at the University of Copenhagen before becoming an Associate Professor and, from 2001, at the University of Manchester. Currently Head of the Manchester Center for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology and Head of the Condensed Matter Physics Department.

Honorary Doctor of Delft technical university, ETH Zurich and the University of Antwerp. He holds the title of "Langworthy Professor" at the University of Manchester (Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

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

Subject of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. His wife, Irina Grigorieva (a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys), worked, like Geim, at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and currently works with her husband in the laboratory of the University of Manchester.

After Geim was awarded the Nobel Prize, the intention was announced to invite him to work at Skolkovo. Game said: At the same time, Game said that he does not have Russian citizenship and feels comfortable in the UK, expressing skepticism towards the Russian government’s project to create an analogue of Silicon Valley in the country.

Scientific achievements

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

Also widely known is the experiment with, among other things, the famous “flying frog”, for which Game, together with the famous mathematician and theorist Sir Michael Berry, received the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000.

In 2004, Andrei Geim, together with his student Konstantin Novoselov, invented the technology for producing graphene, a new material that is a monatomic layer of carbon. As it turned out during 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 to not allow even helium molecules to pass through - the smallest known molecules. All this makes it a promising material for a number of applications, such as creating touch screens, light panels and, possibly, solar panels.

For this discovery (Great Britain) awarded Game in 2007. He also received the prestigious EuroPhysics Prize (together with Konstantin Novoselov). In 2010, the invention of graphene was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which Geim also shared with Novoselov.

Some publications

Andrey Geim is interested in mountain tourism. His first “five-thousander” was Elbrus, and his favorite mountain was Kilimanjaro.

The scientist has a peculiar sense of humor. One confirmation of this is an article on diamagnetic levitation, in which Geim’s co-author was his favorite hamster (“hamster”) Tisch. Game himself stated on this occasion that the hamster’s contribution to the levitation experiment was more direct. This work was subsequently used in obtaining a Ph.D.

Notes

Literature

G. Brumfiel. Graphene speeds pair to Stockholm win // Nature.- Vol. 467, p. 642 (2010).
A. Cho. Still in Its Infancy, Two-Dimensional Crystal Claims Prize // Science.- Vol. 330, p. 159 (2010).
D. Bukhvalov. Nobel type of carbon // Trinity option.- No. 64, p. 4 (10/12/2010).
Mikhail Katsnelson: “They did what the textbooks prohibited” // Trinity option.- No. 64, pp. 4-5 (10/12/2010).
E. S. Reich. Nobel document triggers debate // Nature.- Vol. 468, p. 486 (2010).
Y. Hancock. The 2010 Nobel Prize in physics-ground-breaking experiments on graphene // J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. - Vol. 44, pp. 473001 (2011).

Links

Personal page on the University of Manchester website
Yu. Erin. Nobel Prize in Physics - 2010 // “Elements.ru”, 10/11/2010

Articles

Articles by Andrei Geim for 1981-1990. in the journal “Letters to JETP”
Articles by Andrei Geim in the journal “Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk”
Publications in the Astrophysics Data System

(10) Soviet, Dutch and British physicist, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics (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, he was awarded the title of Knight Bachelor for services to science with the official right to add the title “Sir” to his name.

"Biography"

Born in 1958 in Sochi, into a family of engineers of German origin (the only exception known to Geim among his German ancestors was his great-great-grandmother on his mother’s side, 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 Geim (1910-1998), since 1964 worked as chief engineer of the Nalchik Electric Vacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there. The mother's half-brother is the famous theoretical physicist Vladimir Nikolaevich Bayer, the son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bayer, Andrei Geim's grandfather.

Education

In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated from high school No. 3 in Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but was unsuccessful (the applicant’s German origin was an obstacle). Returning to Nalchik, he worked for 8 months at the Nalchik Electric Vacuum Plant. At this time, I met V.G. Petrosyan and received 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 (“B” in his diploma only in the political economy of socialism) and entered graduate school. In 1987 he received a Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Activity

"News"

Andrei Geim's wife spoke about what Russian science is missing

MOSCOW, October 21 - RIA Novosti. Irina Grigorieva, Russian-British physicist and wife of Andrei Geim, told what is missing Russian science, which unites her 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 with height, width and length can exist in nature.

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

Andrei Geim, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, congratulated Academician Alexander Sergeev on his election to the post of 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 opens with presentation of prize in medicine

The physics and chemistry laureates will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, and the peace prize laureate will be named on Friday, October 6 in Oslo

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

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

Nobel laureate Andre Geim: The inhabitants will kill humanity in 50 years

The famous physicist, discoverer of graphene, Nobel and even Ig Nobel Prize laureate, knight of the British Empire Andrei Geim left Russia long ago and works in the largest Western scientific centers. Last week, he unexpectedly came to Moscow to support Minister Dmitry Livanov, who had come under fire; 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 ordinary people threatening the death of humanity, as well as about Rusnano kickbacks, 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

Andrey 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 Andrei Geim arrived in Russia

On May 28, Nobel Prize laureate in physics Andrei Geim arrived in Russia. According to Kommersant, at the invitation of the head of the Ministry of Education and 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 Andre 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 presidential candidate of the Russian Academy of Sciences 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 expressed the idea that there are essentially two ministries of science in the country now: 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 down the Russian Academy of Sciences, saying that it was a nursing home.”
link: http://www.mk.ru/science/article

Nobel laureate in bioinformatics Andrei Geim came to Russia

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

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

A native of the USSR, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, Andrei 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 by council members at a meeting today.
link: http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/ 20130528210003.shtml

Nobel laureate Geim: Novosibirsk Akademgorodok is an exception for Russian science

Former Russian scientist, 2010 Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrei Geim, working 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 under the Ministry of Education and Science, the Russian Academy of Sciences is similar to a “nursing home”, and in Russian universities"kindergarten" level of science. Game considered the only exceptions to be Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, MIPT and MISiS, writes RBC.
link: http://sib.fm/news/2013/05/29/iskljuchenie-dlja-rossijskoj-nauki

Nobel laureate Geim took the side of the Ministry of Education and Science in the conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrei 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’ll throw them in our hats,” we need to get together and 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 Geim arrived in Russia
Nobel laureate Andrei Geim came to 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. A scientist can also give a lecture to students at MIPT, 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 against a Nobel laureate

Immediately after the announcement of the voting results, Fortov announced that the RAS is aimed at change, will become a generator of new ideas and projects, will begin the fight against internal bureaucracy, and declared his readiness for 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 Nobel laureate Andrei Geim why he called the Russian Academy of Sciences a “nursing home.”
link: http://news.mail.ru/politics/ 13293913/

Nobel Prize winner Geim hopes that his experience will be useful in the Russian Federation

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

Andrey Geim - honorary chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science

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

The editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Alexey Venediktov, reported on his Twitter that 2010 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Andrei Geim agreed to become the honorary chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. The co-chairs were the director of the Moscow Education Center No. 109 Evgeniy Yamburg and an employee of the St. Petersburg state university Stanislav Smirnov.
link: http://strf.ru/material.aspx? CatalogId=221&d_no=56824

Andrey Geim sided with Livanov in the 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, Nobel laureate in physics Andrei Geim sided with the Ministry and supported Minister Dmitry Livanov.
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Sir Andrei Konstantinovich Geim (born October 21, 1958, Sochi) is a Soviet, Dutch and British physicist, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly 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, he was awarded the title of Knight Bachelor for services to science with the official right to add the title “Sir” to his name.

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In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated from high school No. 3 in Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but was unsuccessful (the applicant’s German origin was an obstacle). After working for 8 months at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant, 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 (“B” in his diploma only in the political economy of socialism) and entered graduate school. In 1987 he received a Candidate of Sciences 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 Physics and Technology 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 fellowship from the Royal Society of England and left the Soviet Union. He worked at the University of Nottingham, the University of Bath and briefly at the University of Copenhagen before becoming an Associate Professor at the University of Nijmegen and, from 2001, at the University of Manchester. Currently Head of the Manchester Center for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology and Head of the Condensed Matter Physics Department.

Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Delft, ETH Zurich and the University of Antwerp. He holds the title of Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester (English Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

) - Russian physicist, member of the Royal Society of London (2007), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2010) for experiments with two-dimensional material graphene, professor at the University of Manchester.
Andrei Geim was born into a family of Russified Germans; his parents were engineers. Andrey grew up in Nalchik, where his father worked as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electric Vacuum Plant since 1964. In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated from high school with a gold medal and tried to enter the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, which trained personnel for the nuclear industry of the USSR. His non-Russian origin did not allow him to become a student at MEPhI; Andrei returned to Nalchik and worked at his father’s factory. In 1976, he entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Faculty of General and Applied Physics. After graduating with honors from MIPT (1982), Geim was accepted into graduate school, and in 1987 received a Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka, Moscow region), went abroad in 1990, became a professor at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands in 1994, and received Dutch citizenship. Since 2001 A.K. Geim settled in Great Britain, became a professor at the University of Manchester, and head of the condensed matter physics group.

The main direction of the scientist's scientific research was the properties of solids, in particular, diamagnetic materials. His experiments on diamagnetic levitation became famous. For example, the experiment with the “flying frog” was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 - a comic analogue of the Nobel Prize, awarded annually for the most useless achievements of scientists. Nevertheless, Geim's scientific authority was very high; he became one of the most cited physicists in the world. In 2004, A.K. Geim with his student, Konstantin Novoselov, published in Science magazine an article where he described experiments with a new material - graphene, which is a monatomic layer of carbon. In the course of further research, it was found that graphene has a number of unique properties: increased strength, high electrical and thermal conductivity, transparent to light, but at the same time dense enough to not allow helium molecules - the smallest known molecules - to pass through. This discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010.

In 2011, Queen Elizabeth bestowed upon Game the rank of Knight Bachelor and the title "Sir". That same year he received the Niels Bohr Medal for outstanding achievements in physics.

On May 28, 2013, Andrei Geim came to Moscow at the invitation of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and accepted the offer to become an honorary co-chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science. At the end of June, he supported the bill on reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences ().

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