Andre Geim

Andre Geim

Physicist Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work using magnetism to levitate a frog. About 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.

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