Emmanuel de Gennes

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:École_Normale_Supérieure
gptkbp:award gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:awardedFor 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
gptkbp:awardYear 1991
gptkbp:birthDate 1932-10-24
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:children gptkb:Claire_Wyart
gptkbp:deathDate 2007-05-18
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Orsay,_France
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Yves_Rocard
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Collège_de_France
gptkb:Orsay_Faculty_of_Sciences
gptkb:Saclay_Nuclear_Research_Centre
École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
gptkbp:field condensed matter physics
superconductivity
polymer physics
liquid crystals
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Dirac_Medal
gptkb:Harvey_Prize
gptkb:Lorentz_Medal
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Commander_of_the_Legion_of_Honour
gptkb:Holweck_Prize
gptkb:Grand_Cross_of_the_National_Order_of_Merit_(France)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Emmanuel de Gennes
gptkbp:knownFor work on phase transitions
work on liquid crystals
work on polymers
de Gennes scaling
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
English
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:position gptkb:film_director
gptkb:professor
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Scaling_Concepts_in_Polymer_Physics
gptkb:The_Physics_of_Liquid_Crystals
Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys
gptkbp:spouse Anne-Marie de Gennes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jean-Baptiste_de_Gennes
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7