Andre Geim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andre Geim

Russian-born Dutch-British physicist

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1958

Place of Birth: Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Profession: scientist, professor, physicist, inventor

Nationality: United Kingdom, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: ?????´? ?????????´????? ????), FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene.
He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute.
Sir Andre Geim had also been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize earlier in 2000 for levitating a frog by magnetism.
He is the only individual, as of 2019, to have received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel.