Play: First scientist to win both a Nobel and an IgNobel
Science can be fun, science can be work, and science can be both. Here's a scientist who obviously had fun when he worked.
NPR: Ig Nobel To Nobel: Creative (And Fun) Science Wins
The star of the physics world today is a new form of carbon: graphene. It's the world's thinnest material, and also perhaps the strongest.
The two scientists who discovered graphene in 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won this year's Nobel Prize for physics. But among non-physicists, the leader of the team may already be more famous for one of his laboratory tricks: using magnets to levitate a frog.
But you don't get a Nobel Prize for tricks with frogs - for that, there's the Ig Nobel prize, which is devoted to silly science. And Geim, a Russian-born physicist at the University of Manchester in England, has now become the first scientist to win both.
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