安德烈·海姆

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1958年海姆出生于前苏联索契的一个德国血统家庭，出生后与外祖父母生活七年在一起。1987年从苏联科学院固态物理研究所获得博士学位后在欧洲多所大学工作。

2000年因海姆于1997年在《欧洲物理学杂志》上报告的青蛙悬浮实验而与迈克尔·贝里爵士一同获得该年的搞笑诺贝尔物理学奖，该实验涉及水的抗磁性，用磁铁就能使一只小青蛙悬浮起来。

2007年海姆当选为英国皇家学会院士，2009年获得中国科学院“爱因斯坦讲席教授”。2010年10月5日与其学生康斯坦丁·诺沃肖洛夫因“在二维石墨烯材料的开创性实验”共同获得2010年诺贝尔物理学奖，这也使他成为唯一同时获得诺贝尔及搞笑诺贝尔奖获得者。

2012年当选为美国国家科学院外籍院士，2013年获得科普利奖章，2017年当选为中国科学院外籍院士，同年与清华大学清华-伯克利深圳学院联合成立“深圳盖姆石墨烯研究中心”并担任主任。

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.

Education

Andre Geim was born to Konstantin Alekseyevich Geim and Nina Nikolayevna Bayer in Sochi, Russia, on 21 October 1958. Both his parents were engineers of German origin; Geim says his maternal great-grandmother was Jewish. His grandfather Nikolay N. Bayer (Mykola Baier in Ukrainian) was a notable public figure in Ukraine of the early 20th century, one of its first nature conservationists and the founder/first rector of Kaminiets-Podilskyi University.

In 1965, the family moved to Nalchik, where he studied at a high school. After graduation, he applied to the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.……

Academic career

After earning his PhD with Victor Petrashov, Geim worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Microelectronics Technology (IMT) at RAS, and from 1990 as a post-doctoral fellow at the universities of Nottingham (twice), Bath, and Copenhagen. He said that while at Nottingham he could spend his time on research rather than "swimming through Soviet treacle", and determined to leave the Soviet Union.

He obtained his first tenured position in 1994, when he was appointed associate professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he worked on mesoscopic superconductivity.……

Research

Geim's achievements include the discovery of a simple method for isolating single atomic layers of graphite, known as graphene, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Manchester and IMT. The team published their findings in October 2004 in Science.

Graphene consists of one-atom-thick layers of carbon atoms arranged in two-dimensional hexagons, and is the thinnest material in the world, as well as one of the strongest and hardest. The material has many potential applications.

Honours and awards

He shared the 2008 EPS Europhysics Prize with Novoselov "for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties". In 2009 he received the Körber European Science Award. The US National Academy of Sciences honoured him with the 2010 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science "for his experimental realisation and investigation of graphene, the two-dimensional form of carbon".

He was awarded one of six Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorships.……

Personal life

View and opinions

Geim was one of 38 Nobel laureates who signed a declaration in 2010 issued by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East protesting an international initiative to boycott Israeli academics, institutions, and research centres.

At the Nobel Minds symposium in December 2010, Geim said the Nobel Peace Prize committee's choice of Chinese dissident, the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo, as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was patronising, saying

"Look at the people who give this Nobel prize. They are retired Norwegian politicians who have spent all their careers in a safe environment, in an oil-rich modern country.……

Identity

Geim has a complex ancestry which is described in detail in his Nobel Prize autobiography.……