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Sir Andre Geim

Russian-born physicist
Also known as: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim
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Sir Andre Geim (born October 21, 1958, Sochi, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a physicist who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with graphene. He shared the prize with his colleague and former student Konstantin Novoselov. Geim holds dual citizenship in the Netherlands and Great Britain. Geim received a masterā€™s degree from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (now the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) in 1982 and a doctoral degree from the...

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