Sep 22, 2020
How One Irreverent Physicist Went From Levitating Frogs to Winning the Nobel Prize
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, particle physics
The following is adapted from Lewis’ The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, published by Simon & Schuster.
“It says, ‘No entrance,’ but you just enter,” physicist Andre Geim told me about the graphite mines in the mountains where he often hikes. His comment embodied the insouciance behind his Nobel Prize–winning physics experiment and his habit of experimenting deliberately outside of his area of expertise.