Nobel laureate Andrey Geim does not know that he was invited to Skolkovo
The scientist noted that he "does not know about Russia's intention to invite him to work at Skolkovo and does not want to know." "I'm not interested in it in any way. I don't have Russian citizenship, I'm a Dutch citizen, have people gone completely crazy there?" he told the Russian News Service. According to the scientist, he is not going to return to Russia, because he is very comfortable in the UK. Game notes that the residents of London are even somewhat similar to Muscovites.
According to him, graphene could have been created in Russia, but "the chances of its creation were 1 in 1000 – compared to what could be done abroad." For this reason, the physicist decided to go to work abroad. "In England, I realized that within 6 months you can do the same thing there that you could do in Russia in the 90s for 10 or 20 years. And for an experimenter who needed equipment, means for research, the working conditions here and there were so different that there was not even a question of staying or not. Staying in Russia was for me the same as spending my life fighting windmills, and work for me was a hobby and I absolutely did not want to spend my life on mouse fuss," the Nobel Laureate stressed.
Earlier, Alexey Sitnikov, head of the International Cooperation Department of the Skolkovo Foundation, told reporters about his intention to invite Nobel laureates in physics Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov to participate in the project.
Andrey Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, students of the Russian scientific school currently working in the UK, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 on October 5 for creating the world's thinnest carbon material – graphene. Professor Geim was born in Russia in 1958, and now holds Dutch citizenship.
by the way
In the interview STRF.RU (the full text can be read in their article "Nobel and Schnobel in one basket") Vyacheslav Tulin, Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, director of the Institute of Problems of Microelectronics Technology and Especially Pure Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka, recalled such a funny detail of the biography of the Nobel laureate:
– I must say that Game is generally a talented person for all sorts of inventions. It seems to me that he is the only scientist who is simultaneously a winner of the Nobel and Nobel Prizes. He got Schnobel for a job called "Hanging a frog in a magnetic field." And the most amazing thing is that it was published in such a reputable journal as Nature.
Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru07.10.2010