Andre Geim and two unusual prizes

Physicist Andre Geim received both an Ig Nobel Prize and a Nobel Prize. In 2000, he shared the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics with Michael Berry for experiments in magnetic levitation, including a frog. Ten years later, Geim and Konstantin Novoselov jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments on graphene. Geim explained that the frog experiment was a serious demonstration of diamagnetism, even though it had a playful form. The illustration is AI-generated, not a photograph of the experiment.