News reports say that Andre Geim (who won an Ig Nobel physics prize for using magnets to levitate a frog, and then won a Nobel physics prize for discovering how to obtain and study the virtually-two-dimensional form of carbon known as “graphene“) — discovered that a Chinese brassiere manufacturer is falsely claiming that he, Andre […]
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Levitated frogs, graphene, and all that
BBC Radio 4 says: “Andre Geim values his Ig Nobel prize for levitating frogs as much as his Nobel for graphene.” UPDATE: The BBC posted a recording of the interview, with this introduction: Helen Grady profiles Professor Sir Andre Geim who is one of the most unusual scientists working in Britain – perhaps the world […]
Geim’s beautiful mind and frog on BBC-4 tonight
Andre Geim, who has an Ig Nobel Prize in physics (awarded in 2000) and a Nobel Prize in physics (awarded in 2010) will be profiled tonight on BBC-Four’s “Beautiful Minds” program. (HT Sid Rodrigues)
“No one had tried such a silly thing before” — Geim
With this idea in mind and, allegedly, on a Friday night, I poured water inside the lab’s electromagnet when it was at its maximum power. Pouring water in one’s equipment is certainly not a standard scientific approach, and I cannot recall why I behaved so ‘unprofessionally’. Apparently, no one had tried such a silly thing […]