Nobel Prize in Game Physics. Game, Andrei Konstantinovich - biography. Honorary titles and awards

Sir Andrei Konstantinovich Geim (born October 21, 1958, Sochi) is a Soviet, Dutch and British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 (together with Konstantin Novoselov), a 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 decree of Queen Elizabeth II, for services to science, he was awarded the title of knight bachelor with the official right to add the title "sir" to his name.

Have you people gone crazy there? Do they think that if they give someone a bag of gold, then everyone can be invited?

Game Andrey Konstantinovich

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

In 1975, Andrey Geim graduated from secondary school No. 3 in the city of Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but unsuccessfully (the German origin of the applicant 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 researcher at the Institute of Solid State Physics 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 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 Associate Professor at the University of Nijmegen and since 2001 at the University of Manchester. He is currently Head of the Manchester Center for "Meso-Science and Nanotechnology", as well as Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

Honorary doctorates from the Delft University of Technology, the ETH Zurich and the University of Antwerp. He has the title of "Professor Langworthy" of the University of Manchester (Eng. Langworthy Professor, among those awarded this title were Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg and Patrick Blackett).

Andrei Konstantinovich Geim was born on October 21, 1958 in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory. His parents were engineers of German origin, and Game himself considers himself 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, Game 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 from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Game left Russia shortly before Perestroika in 1990. Having received a scholarship from the English Royal Society, 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 Prize, but also the Ig Nobel Prize, it is awarded for the most ridiculous inventions.

Andrei Konstantinovich and Michael Berry from the University of Bristol received the Ig Nobel 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, an honorary doctorate from the Delft University of Technology, the ETH Zurich and the University of Antwerp, and has the title of "Professor Langworthy" of the University of Manchester.

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

For October, 2018 the present Andrey Geim together with his wife Irina Grigorieva lives in Holland, directs the Manchester Center for MesoScience and Nanotechnology and heads the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

(10) 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 of the developers of the first method for producing graphene. On December 31, 2011, by decree of Queen Elizabeth II, for services to science, he was awarded the title of knight bachelor with the official right to add the title "sir" to his name

"Biography"

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). 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 Game (1910-1998), since 1964 he worked as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant; mother, Nina Nikolaevna Bayer (born 1927), worked as chief technologist there. Mother's half-brother is the famous theoretical physicist Vladimir Nikolaevich Bayer, son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bayer, grandfather of Andrey Geim.

Education

In 1975, Andrey Geim graduated from secondary school No. 3 in the city of Nalchik with a gold medal and tried to enter MEPhI, but unsuccessfully (the German origin of the applicant was an obstacle). Returning to Nalchik, he worked for 8 months at the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant. At this time, he met V. G. Petrosyan and took 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 (“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.

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Andrey Geim's wife spoke about what Russian science lacks

MOSCOW, October 21 - RIA Novosti. Irina Grigorieva, Russian-British physicist and wife of Andrey Geim, spoke about what Russian science lacks, what unites it 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 that have height, width, and length can exist in nature.

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

Andrei Geim, Nobel Prize winner in physics, congratulated Academician Alexander Sergeev on his election as 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 kicks off with awards in medicine

The winners in physics and chemistry will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, and on Friday, October 6, the Peace Prize winner will be announced in Oslo

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

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

Nobel laureate Andrei Geim: The townsfolk will kill humanity in 50 years

The famous physicist, discoverer of graphene, winner of the Nobel and even the Ig Nobel Prizes, knight of the British Empire Andrey Geim left Russia long ago and works in the largest Western scientific centers. Last week, he unexpectedly arrived in Moscow to support Minister Dmitry Livanov, who came under fire from criticism, 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 the townsfolk threatening the death of humanity, as well as about the rollbacks of Rosnano, 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

Andrei 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 Andrey Geim arrived in Russia

On May 28, Andrey Geim, Nobel Prize winner in physics, arrived in Russia. According to Kommersant, at the invitation of the head of the Ministry of Defense 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 Andrei 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 RAS presidential candidate Zhores Alferov, Academician Alexander Aseev (Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) sharply condemned the position of Nobel laureate Andrey Geim: “Yesterday the Public Council replaced Zhores Ivanovich with Geim. He suggested that there are now essentially two ministries of science in the country: 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 the Russian Academy of Sciences, saying that this is a nursing home.”
link: http://www.mk.ru/science/ article

Nobel laureate in bioinformatics Andrey Geim arrived in Russia

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

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

A native of the USSR, Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrey 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 today at a meeting of the members of the Council.
link: http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/ 20130528210003.shtml

Nobel Laureate Game: Novosibirsk Academgorodok is an Exception for Russian Science

Former Russian scientist, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 2010 Andrey Geim, who works 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 at the Ministry of Education and Science, the Russian Academy of Sciences is similar to a "nursing home", and in Russian universities the "kindergarten" level of science. Game considered only the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, MIPT and MISiS as an exception, writes RBC.
link: http://sib.fm/news/2013/05/29/iskljuchenie-dlja-rossijskoj-nauki

Nobel laureate Geim sided with the Ministry of Education and Science in a conflict with the Russian Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrey Geim, who became 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 will throw hats on them’, we need to get together, 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 Game Arrives in Russia
Nobel laureate Andrei Geim arrived in 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. The scientist can also give a lecture to the students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 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 from the Nobel laureate

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

Nobel Prize winner Game hopes his experience will be useful in Russia

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

Andrey Game - Honorary Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science

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

Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy radio station, announced on his Twitter that the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in physics Andrey Geim agreed to become the honorary chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. Evgeny Yamburg, director of the Moscow Education Center No. 109, and Stanislav Smirnov, an employee of St. Petersburg State University, became co-chairs.
link: http://strf.ru/material.aspx? CatalogId=221&d_no=56824

Andrey Game sided with Livanov in a 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, the Nobel laureate in physics Andrey Geim sided with the Ministry and supported Minister Dmitry Livanov.
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) - 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. Andrei grew up in Nalchik, where his father worked since 1964 as the chief engineer of the Nalchik Electrovacuum Plant. In 1975, Andrey 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 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 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 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. Game settled in the UK, became a professor at the University of Manchester, head of the condensed matter physics group.

The main direction of scientific research of the scientist was the properties of solids, in particular, diamagnets. He gained fame for his experiments on diamagnetic levitation. For example, the experiment with the "flying frog" was awarded in 2000 with the Ig Nobel 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 and his student, Konstantin Novoselov, published an article in the journal Science, where they 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 not to miss helium molecules - the smallest known molecules. This discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010.

In 2011, Queen Elizabeth granted Game a knight bachelor and the title "sir". In the same year he received the Niels Bohr medal for outstanding achievements in physics.

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