Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British-Dutch physicist. Geim was appointed as a chair professor at the University of Hong Kong and assumed his tenure in 2026. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010, announced October 5, 2010. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. Andre Geim: born 1958, Sochi, Russia. Konstantin Novoselov: born 1974, Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).