Sir Andrei Konstantinovich Geim (born October 21, 1958, Sochi) - Soviet, Dutch and British physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 2010 (together with Konstantin Novoselov), member of the Royal Society of London (since 2007), known primarily as one from the developers of the first method for obtaining graphene. On December 31, 2011, by the decree of Queen Elizabeth II, he was awarded the title of knight-bachelor for his services to science with the official right to add the title "sir" to his name.

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). Geim considers himself a European and believes that he does not need a more detailed "taxonomy". In 1964 the family moved to Nalchik.

Have people there gone completely crazy? Do they think that if they donate a bag of gold to someone, then they can invite everyone?

Game Andrey Konstantinovich

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

In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated from secondary school No. 3 in the city of Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but unsuccessfully (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 ("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 research fellow at the ISSP of the USSR Academy of Sciences and at the Institute for Problems of Microelectronic 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, 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. Currently he is the head of the Manchester Center for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, as well as the head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

Honorary Doctor of the Delft University of Technology, the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the University of Antwerp. Has the title of "Professor Langworthy" University of Manchester (eng. Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Laurence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

Biography

Was born in 1958 in Sochi, in a family of engineers of German origin with Jewish roots on the 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 Electrovacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there.

In 1975, Andrei Geim graduated from secondary school No. 3 in the city of Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but unsuccessfully (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 ("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 research fellow at the ISSP of the USSR Academy of Sciences and at the Institute for Problems of Microelectronic 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, and also briefly at the University of Copenhagen, before becoming an assistant professor, and since 2001 - at the University of Manchester. Currently he is the head of the Manchester Center for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, as well as the head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

Honorary Doctor of the Delft University of Technology, the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the University of Antwerp. He has the title of "Langworthy Professor" of the University of Manchester (Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Laurence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

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

National of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Wife - Irina Grigorieva (a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys), worked, like Game, at the ISSP of the USSR Academy of Sciences, currently works with her husband in the laboratory of the University of Manchester.

After Geim was awarded the Nobel Prize, it was announced that he would be invited 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 about the Russian government's project to create an analogue of Silicon Valley in the country.

Scientific achievements

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

Also widely known is the experiment with, including the famous "flying frog", for which Game, together with the famous mathematician and theorist Sir Michael Berry from, received the 2000 Shnobel Prize.

In 2004, Andrei Geim, together with his student Konstantin Novoselov, invented a technology for producing graphene, a new material that is a monoatomic layer of carbon. As it turned out in the course of further experiments, graphene possesses 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 let even helium molecules pass through. are the smallest known molecules. All this makes it a promising material for a number of applications, such as the creation of touch screens, light panels and, possibly, solar panels.

For this discovery (Great Britain) in 2007 he awarded Geim. He also received the prestigious EuroPhysics Prize (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 fond of mountain tourism. Elbrus became his first "five-thousander", and his favorite mountain was Kilimanjaro.

• The scientist is distinguished by a kind of humor. One of the confirmation of this is an article on diamagnetic levitation, in which Geim's favorite hamster ("Hamster") Tisha was co-authored. Game himself on this occasion stated that the contribution of the hamster to the experiment with levitation was more direct... Subsequently, this work was used to obtain a Ph.D. degree.

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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 (12.10.2010).
• Mikhail Katsnelson: "They did what is forbidden by textbooks" // Trinity option.- No. 64, pp. 4-5 (12.10.2010).
• 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, P. 473001 (2011).

Links

• Personal page on the website of the University of Manchester
• Yu. Erin. Nobel Prize in Physics - 2010 // "Elements.ru", 11.10.2010

Articles

• Articles by Andrey Geim for 1981-1990 in the journal "Letters to ZhETF"
• Articles by Andrey Geim in the journal "Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk"
• Astrophysics Data System publications

Andrey Konstantinovich Geim was born on October 21, 1958 in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory. His parents were engineers of German origin, and Geim himself considers himself a European. In 1964 the family moved to Nalchik. After school in 1975, Andrei tried to enter the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.

Despite the gold medal and excellent knowledge of the applicant, the attempt was unsuccessful, the very German origin of Geim played a cruel joke. As a result, having worked for a year at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant, Geim again "stormed the capital", this time more successfully. The guy became a student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1982.

After graduating from the Faculty of General and Applied Physics, Andrei Konstantinovich entered graduate school and in 1987 received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Geim left Russia shortly before Perestroika in 1990. Having received a scholarship from the Royal Society of England, he worked for some time at the University of Nottingham, then at the University of Bath, at the University of Copenhagen, at the University of Nijmegen, and since 2001 at the University of Manchester.

The most famous discovery of the scientist: graphene, a new generation material with a number of unique properties, increased strength and density, high electrical conductivity and excellent thermal conductivity and opens up new perspectives in the creation of touch screens, light panels and solar cells.

The technology for creating graphene, invented by Andrey Geim and his student Konstantin Novoselov in 2004, has brought scientists several awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. By the way, Geim became the first scientist who was awarded not only the Nobel, but also the Shnobel Prize, it is awarded for the most ridiculous inventions.

Andrei Konstantinovich and Michael Berry from the University of Bristol received the Shnobel Prize for their experiment with a levitating frog. For his scientific work, Game has received a number of awards, has many honorary academic titles and degrees. In particular, he is a member of the Royal Society of London, honorary doctors of the Delft University of Technology, the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the University of Antwerp, has the title of "Professor Langworthy" at the University of Manchester.

By the decree of Queen Elizabeth II for services to science on December 31, 2011, Andrei Heim was awarded the title of knight-bachelor with the right to add the title "sir" to his name.

As of October 2018, Andrey Geim lives with his wife Irina Grigorieva in Holland, runs the Manchester Center for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, and heads the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

) - Russian physicist, member of the Royal Society of London (2007), Nobel Prize winner 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. Andrei grew up in Nalchik, where his father, since 1964, worked as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant. 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. Non-Russian origin did not allow him to become a student at MEPhI, Andrei returned to Nalchik, worked at a factory with his father. In 1976 he entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Faculty of General and Applied Physics. After graduating with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1982), Geim was admitted to graduate school, in 1987 he received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics. He worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka, Moscow Region), in 1990 went abroad, in 1994 became a professor at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and received Dutch citizenship. Since 2001 A.K. Game settled in Great Britain, became a professor at the University of Manchester, head of the condensed matter physics group.

The main direction of the scientist's scientific research was the properties of solids, in particular, diamagnets. He became famous for his experiments on diamagnetic levitation. For example, the experiment with the "flying frog" was awarded the 2000 Shnobel Prize - 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. Game with his student, Konstantin Novoselov, published an article in the journal Science, 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 conductivity and thermal conductivity, transparent to light, but at the same time dense enough not to let through helium molecules - the smallest known molecules. This discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010.

In 2011, Queen Elizabeth bestowed the title of Knight Bachelor and the title "Sir" on Geim. In the same year, he received the Niels Bohr Medal for Excellence in Physics.

On May 28, 2013, Andrei Geim arrived in Moscow at the invitation of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and accepted an 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 draft law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences ().