PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES

1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers.

Born: 1932
Residence: France
Affiliation: Collège de France, Paris

• A French article about him by Catherine Pepin

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• French Materials Scientist Gets Nobel in Physics

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