{"id":146846,"date":"2026-02-26T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146846"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:31:17","slug":"father-of-graphene-andre-geim-leaves-britain-for-chair-professorship-at-hku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146846","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Father of graphene\u2019 Andre Geim leaves Britain for chair professorship at HKU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAndre Geim, the 67-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist known in China as the \u201cfather of graphene\u201d, will join the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor in April, according to the university.<br \/>\nGeim, who led a team at the University of Manchester to isolate graphene \u2013 the world\u2019s thinnest and strongest material, consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms \u2013 using adhesive tape in 2004, is set to leave Britain after spending more than two decades of his career there.<\/p>\n<p>Geim said he was&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3344703\/father-graphene-andre-geim-leaves-britain-chair-professorship-hku?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAndre Geim, the 67-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist known in China as the \u201cfather of graphene\u201d, will join the University of Hong Kong as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}