[ugh]

Andre Geim is quite a character. He won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for floating a frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#...).

[Janteh]

He also chose his hamster as co-author for one of his articles:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(00)00753-5