Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes
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gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:CNRS_Gold_Medal
gptkb:Holweck_Prize
gptkbp:children 6
gptkbp:dateOfBirth 1932-10-24
gptkbp:dateOfDeath 2007-05-18
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Yves_Rocard
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Françoise_Brochard-Wyart
gptkb:Jacques_Prost
gptkb:Jean-François_Joanny
gptkbp:educatedAt gptkb:École_Normale_Supérieure
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Collège_de_France
gptkb:Orsay_Faculty_of_Sciences
gptkb:Saclay_Nuclear_Research_Centre
gptkbp:fieldOfWork condensed matter physics
superconductivity
polymer physics
liquid crystals
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
gptkbp:influenced soft matter physics
liquid crystal display technology
gptkbp:knownFor work on phase transitions
work on liquid crystals
work on polymers
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
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:occupation gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Orsay,_France
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Physical_Review_Letters
gptkb:Journal_de_Physique
gptkbp:signature Pierre-Gilles de Gennes signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Anne-Marie_Benoit
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gptkb:Theory_of_Polymers
gptkb:École_Normale_Supérieure
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