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Andre Geim

b. 1958

Russian-born Dutch-British physicist

Born
21 Oct 1958 · Sochi
Part ofRussia1223 – todayKingdom of the Netherlands1772 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 78 years
  1. 21 Oct 1958BornBorn in Sochi
  2. 2000AwardIg Nobel Prize
  3. 2007AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  4. 2007 – 2013RoleLangworthy Professor
  5. 2007AwardNevill Mott Medal and Prize
  6. 2008AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  7. 2009AwardKörber European Science Prize
  8. 2010AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
  9. 2010AwardHughes Medal
  10. 2010AwardJohn J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
  11. 2010AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  12. 2011AwardKnight Bachelor
  13. 2013AwardCopley Medal
  14. 2013RoleRegius Professor of Physics
  15. 2016AwardCarbon Medal

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1958 – today).

  1. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  3. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  5. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  7. 1968Prague Spring
  8. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  9. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  10. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  13. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  14. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  15. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  16. 1985Schengen Agreement
  17. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  18. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  19. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  21. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  23. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  24. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  25. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  26. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  27. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  28. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  29. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  30. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  31. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  32. 20112011 Norway attacks
  33. 2011Libyan civil war
  34. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  35. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  36. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  38. 2015Paris Agreement
  39. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2020COVID-19 pandemic

Biography

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born British-Dutch physicist. Geim was appointed as a chair professor at the University of Hong Kong and assumed his tenure in 2026.

Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. At that time he was a Dutch citizen. He later became a British citizen to accept a knighthood and considered himself Dutch-British.

Previously he was working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Geim has been Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute.

He was also previously awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the first and only individual, as of 2026, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes, for which he holds a Guinness World Record.

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