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Andre Geim levitates a frog...
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Credits
- Participant
- Andre Geim
- Director
- Penny Palmer
- Producer
- Penny Palmer
- Executive Producer
- Sacha Baveystock
Beautiful Minds, Series 2 Episode 2 of 3
Duration: 1 hour
Physicist Professor Andre Geim's constant search for new ideas has led to some extraordinary discoveries, from levitating frogs to a tape that sticks to surfaces like a gecko's foot. He reveals how his playful approach to his research helped him uncover the properties of graphene, the world's thinnest material, and won him a Nobel Prize.
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