{"id":113291,"date":"2020-09-22T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/how-one-irreverent-physicist-went-from-levitating-frogs-to-winning-the-nobel-prize"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:22:34","slug":"how-one-irreverent-physicist-went-from-levitating-frogs-to-winning-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/how-one-irreverent-physicist-went-from-levitating-frogs-to-winning-the-nobel-prize","title":{"rendered":"How One Irreverent Physicist Went From Levitating Frogs to Winning the Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gbUZsI-oxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The following is adapted from Lewis\u2019 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1451629230\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\"><strong><em>The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><em>published by Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says, \u2018No entrance,\u2019 but you just enter,\u201d 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\u2013winning physics experiment and his habit of experimenting deliberately outside of his area of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Geim, a Russian-born Dutch and British citizen and a professor at the University of Manchester, and his colleague Konstantin Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for their experiments involving the single-atom-thick material called graphene\u2014the thinnest, strongest, most conductive material in existence. It is predicted to replace silicon and transform the electronics industry as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is adapted from Lewis\u2019 The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, published by Simon &amp; Schuster. \u201cIt says, \u2018No entrance,\u2019 but you just enter,\u201d physicist Andre Geim told me about the graphite mines in the mountains where he often hikes. His comment embodied the insouciance behind his Nobel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}