François de Gennes

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/François_de_Gennes
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:École_Normale_Supérieure
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Holweck_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1932-10-24
gptkbp:deathDate 2007-05-18
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Yves_Rocard
gptkbp:fieldOfWork condensed matter physics
polymers
liquid crystals
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label François de Gennes
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Académie_des_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:NobelPrizeMotivation 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
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear 1991
gptkbp:notableWork work on liquid crystals
work on polymers
theory of phase transitions
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Orsay,_France
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jean-Baptiste_de_Gennes
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7