Instant information about everything and everyone often allows an individual opinion to compete with consensus and paranoia with evidence. It is a time when one blunt honest statement can finish a life-long political career, and one opinionated journalist can bully a government or a royal family. Science is not immune from such pressures. For example, how many Nobel prize-winning experiments – you think – would have been stopped, if ethics or health-and-safety regulations at that time were as zealous as they are today? I can think of more than a few.
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Andre Geim
Condensed matter physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2010
Russia / Netherlands / United Kingdom · b. 1958
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Physicist at the University of Manchester. Shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Konstantin Novoselov for experiments on graphene. He also received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for the magnetic levitation of a live frog, making him the only person to hold both awards.
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