Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1991for 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
- Citizenship
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France - Languages
- French
- date of birth
- 10/24/1932
- place of birth
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- date of death
- 5/18/2007
- place of death
- Orsay
- Lived
- 74 years
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- employer
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- Leiden University
- start time: 1978
- Leiden University
- end time: 1978
- start time: 1978
- Collège de France
- start time: 1971
- end time: 2007
- University of Paris-Sud
- University of California, Berkeley
- ESPCI Paris, PSL University
- Curie Institute
- Leiden University
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1987
- Royal Society of London
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Australian Academy of Science
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- National Academy of Sciences
- educated at
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- Les Houches School of Physics
- Lycée Saint-Louis
- École Normale Supérieure
- Lycée Claude-Bernard
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- professor
- physicist
- researcher
- university teacher
- theoretical physicist
- doctoral student
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- Laurence Ramos
- Bernard Cabane
- Françoise Brochard-Wyart