summarises his identity as follows. "To the best of my knowledge, the only Jew in the family was my great-grandmother, with the rest on both sides being German. Having lived and worked in several European countries, I consider myself European and do not believe that any further taxonomy is necessary, especially in such a fluid world as the world of science." References Further reading Geim's Nobel Prize banquet speech Publications at Astrophysics Data System, NASA Selected research papers by Andre Geim's group Selected research papers by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov related to research that won them the Nobel Prize External links 1958 births Living people Academics of the University of Manchester 21st-century British inventors British Nobel laureates 21st-century British physicists Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion 21st-century Dutch inventors Dutch Nobel laureates 20th-century Dutch physicists Anti-Zionism in the United Kingdom Anti-Zionism in the Netherlands Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Graphene Carbon scientists Magnetic levitation Nobel laureates in Physics Recipients of the Copley Medal Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Physics Knights Bachelor Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Naturalised citizens of the Netherlands Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom People from Sochi Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom Russian people of German descent 20th-century Russian physicists People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester British nanotechnologists Dutch nanotechnologists