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Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!

~Andre Geim

Topics: Anyone Around Best Call Consider Getting Hobby Hours Job Just Love Me Much Ok Paid People Play Real Recommend Some Some People Time Which Work Workaholic Working Would Yeah You I Can

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What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

~Andre Geim

Topics: About Delivered Important New Physics

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Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Ability Able Always Budget Colleagues Even Family Good Good Intentions Hand Hell Intentions Less Look Many Other Paved Research Road Run Some Trust

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The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Adventure Am Area Biggest Doing Expert Interested Joke Move Not Interested Only Search Sometimes Which You I Am

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Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

~Andre Geim

Topics: Atomic Chemistry Could Given He How Interesting Long Nobel Nobel Prize Nuclear Nuclear Power Physics Power Prize Showing Station Survived

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Physicist

Born: October 21st, 1958

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