Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1932-10-24 in Paris, France

Gender: male

Field: Nobel-laureate physicist

Biography

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991

Awarded on: 1991-10-16

"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"

Affiliations:

  • Collège de FranceParis, France