Andre Geim

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian born British physicist working at the University of Manchester who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010, shared with Konstantin Novoselov, for pioneering research on the two dimensional material graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms with unusual electrical and mechanical properties. He is also known for having won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog using magnets, making him one of the few scientists to hold both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel Prize.