Further adventures of physicist Andre Geim: The New York Times reports, on July 4, 2025:
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship
Thirteen years ago, Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the Netherlands as a result.
For years, Andre Geim was known to the world as a Nobel Prize-winning Dutch physicist, which suited both him and the Dutch just fine. He is still a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but now, according to the government of the Netherlands, he is no longer Dutch.
He is, he said in a show of considerable understatement, “extremely annoyed.” …
In 2010, he and his colleague Konstantin Novoselov — who were by then working in England — won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments creating graphene, the world’s thinnest and strongest material.
His list of honors goes on and on, and Mr. Geim has the unique distinction of having been awarded both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel, a satirical honor for strange scientific achievements (in his case, levitating a frog) that seem laughable but prompt thought….