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Andre Geim

1958 - Today

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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. Geim had also been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize earlier in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andre Geim has received more than 733,736 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Andre Geim is the 302nd most popular physicist (down from 271st in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 409th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Physicist.

Andre Geim is most famous for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his discovery of graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of graphite that is very light and flexible.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Andre Geims by language

Over the past year Andre Geim has had the most page views in the with 92,977 views, followed by Russian (37,615), and Chinese (12,677). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (209.35%), Kazakh (134.00%), and Malagasy (109.90%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Andre Geim ranks 302 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, and Freeman Dyson. After him are Giorgio Parisi, Jack Steinberger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, David Gross, and Ratko Janev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Andre Geim ranks 42. Before him are Angela Bassett, Yoav Galant, Anne L'Huillier, Avigdor Lieberman, Annette Bening, and Quique Setién. After him are Janez Janša, Robert Patrick, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Ralf Rangnick, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kais Saied.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andre Geim ranks 433 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Smirnov (1941), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Daniil Kharms (1905), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Naum Gabo (1890). After him are Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Yury Luzhkov (1936), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Lydia Litvyak (1921), and Andrei Platonov (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Andre Geim ranks 16. Before him are Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexey Ekimov (1945), and Yuri Oganessian (1933). After him are Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Yulii Khariton (1904), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), and Vladimir Fock (1898).

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