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Nobel Physicist Andre Geim Joins HKU in 2026

2/26/2026

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  • Andre Geim, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will join the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor in April 2026.
  • Geim is known as the "father of graphene" for isolating graphene in 2004 at the University of Manchester.
  • Over 20 years in Britain, he is drawn to Hong Kong's East-West collaboration.
  • He has been a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2017.