
{"id":21964,"date":"2010-10-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=21964\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T04:24:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T04:24:24","slug":"nobel-physicist-andre-geims-copenhagen-story-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/nobel-physicist-andre-geims-copenhagen-story-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel physicist Andre Geim&#8217;s Copenhagen story revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone gets the chance to work with a Nobel Prize winner. Yet physics professor Per Hedeg\u00e5rd has collaborated with one such winner, Andre Geim, now and then over the past nineteen years  <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Geim was awarded the Nobel prize for physics along with his colleague, Konstantin Novoselov. The two Russian researchers from the University of Manchester, UK won the prize for discovering graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms with nearly transparent characteristics. Graphene is stronger than diamond, and is a good electricity conductor. <\/p>\n<h2>Came after Soviet break-up<\/h2>\n<p>The University Post interviewed Hedeg\u00e5rd, who works at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He met Geim when the young physicist came to Copenhagen on a tourist visa. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn 1991, after the Soviet Union broke down, Andre and a friend took a tourist visa to travel across Europe, and they came here to Copenhagen\u00ab says Per Hedeg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThey knocked on my door, and they explained a lot of things they have been doing\u00ab he continues. Eventually, they found some money to start their post doctoral research in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<h2>Great research comes in small labs<\/h2>\n<p>Hedeg\u00e5rd praised Geim and Novoselv\u2019s discovery, remarking on graphene\u2019s ability to behave as neutrinos, particles which are normally studied in giant size research centres which cost hundreds of millions of kroner. <\/p>\n<p>Graphene can be used to produce transparent touch screens, light panels and maybe solar cells. Besides these practical applications, it also permits to investigate the theoretical foundations of physics.<\/p>\n<p>With their discovery, Geim and Novoselov underlined that top class research can still be done in small labs, with a limited budget\u2014a feature that Hedeg\u00e5rd said will be useful in Copenhagen and beyond.<\/p>\n<h2>Superconducting magnets<\/h2>\n<p>Another former Copenhagen colleague of Geim is Poul Erik Lindelof, now professor emeritus at the Niels Bohr Insitute.<\/p>\n<p>He explains the technical background to the remarkable note pictured above. The note pertains to a series of measurements carried out in 1991 at one of the Niels Bohr Institute&#8217;s superconducting magnets. Poul Erik Lindelof, together with Geim and colleague Rafael Taboryski carried out a series of experiments on two-dimensional electron gasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAlot like the physics from which Andre Geim received the prize,\u00ab Lindelof explains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"node\/7600\">Read more about the 1991 experiment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lindelof himself has written nine articles with Geim. Two further articles from the Niels Bohr Institute with Geim were written by Rafael Taboryski, now lecturer at Denmarks Technical University, and Louise Theil Kuhn and Anders Kristensen, also from DTU.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post has as yet been unable to reach Andre Geim himself for an account of his Copenhagen experience.<\/p>\n<p>universitypost@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a good story? We would like to <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/how-share-stories-university-post\" target=\"_blank\">hear from you<\/a>. 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Yet physics professor Per Hedeg\u00e5rd has collaborated with one such winner, Andre Geim, now and then over the past nineteen years  <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Geim was awarded the Nobel prize for physics along with his colleague, Konstantin Novoselov. The two Russian researchers from the University of Manchester, UK won the prize for discovering graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms with nearly transparent characteristics. Graphene is stronger than diamond, and is a good electricity conductor. <\/p>\n<h2>Came after Soviet break-up<\/h2>\n<p>The University Post interviewed Hedeg\u00e5rd, who works at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He met Geim when the young physicist came to Copenhagen on a tourist visa. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn 1991, after the Soviet Union broke down, Andre and a friend took a tourist visa to travel across Europe, and they came here to Copenhagen\u00ab says Per Hedeg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThey knocked on my door, and they explained a lot of things they have been doing\u00ab he continues. Eventually, they found some money to start their post doctoral research in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<h2>Great research comes in small labs<\/h2>\n<p>Hedeg\u00e5rd praised Geim and Novoselv\u2019s discovery, remarking on graphene\u2019s ability to behave as neutrinos, particles which are normally studied in giant size research centres which cost hundreds of millions of kroner. <\/p>\n<p>Graphene can be used to produce transparent touch screens, light panels and maybe solar cells. Besides these practical applications, it also permits to investigate the theoretical foundations of physics.<\/p>\n<p>With their discovery, Geim and Novoselov underlined that top class research can still be done in small labs, with a limited budget\u2014a feature that Hedeg\u00e5rd said will be useful in Copenhagen and beyond.<\/p>\n<h2>Superconducting magnets<\/h2>\n<p>Another former Copenhagen colleague of Geim is Poul Erik Lindelof, now professor emeritus at the Niels Bohr Insitute.<\/p>\n<p>He explains the technical background to the remarkable note pictured above. The note pertains to a series of measurements carried out in 1991 at one of the Niels Bohr Institute&#8217;s superconducting magnets. Poul Erik Lindelof, together with Geim and colleague Rafael Taboryski carried out a series of experiments on two-dimensional electron gasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAlot like the physics from which Andre Geim received the prize,\u00ab Lindelof explains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"node\/7600\">Read more about the 1991 experiment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lindelof himself has written nine articles with Geim. Two further articles from the Niels Bohr Institute with Geim were written by Rafael Taboryski, now lecturer at Denmarks Technical University, and Louise Theil Kuhn and Anders Kristensen, also from DTU.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post has as yet been unable to reach Andre Geim himself for an account of his Copenhagen experience.<\/p>\n<p>universitypost@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a good story? We would like to <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/how-share-stories-university-post\" target=\"_blank\">hear from you<\/a>. 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