The Right Chemistry: From levitating frogs to graphene

Winning a Nobel Prize is the pinnacle of scientific achievement. But to couple it with an Ig Nobel award, that is unique! In fact, only one person ever has won both an individual Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize. In 2010, Sir Andre Konstantin Geim shared the Nobel in physics with Konstantin Novoselov for isolating graphene, a remarkable form of carbon that is the thinnest and strongest known material. Ten years earlier, Geim was the recipient of the Ig Nobel in physics for levitating a small fr