Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Born: 24-Oct-1932 Birthplace: Paris, France Died: 18-May-2007 Location of death: Orsay, France Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist Nationality: France Executive summary: Molecular structure of polymers Military service: French Navy (1959-61) French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, for his studies of liquid crystals and polymers, topics previously thought to be too chaotic to be subjected to the rigorous analysis of physics. His work with complex fluids showed that methods already used to study the physics of simple systems could be adapted to study the behavior of molecules and molecular chains in soft matter. Father: Robert Joachim Pierre de Gennes (physician) Mother: Marthe Marie Yvonne Morin-Pons (nurse) Wife: Anne Marie Elisabeth Eugènie Rouet (m. 1954, until his death, three children)
University: PhD, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (1955) Scholar: Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1958-59) Professor: Solid-State Physics, Paris-South University (1961-71) Professor: Physics, Collège de France (1971-2002) Administrator: College of Physics and Chemistry, Paris (1976-2002)
French Atomic Energy Commission Research (1955-59)
IOP Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize 1968
AMPERE Prize 1977
Matteucci Medal 1987 Harvey Prize 1988
Lorentz Medal 1990 Wolf Prize in Physics 1990 (with David J. Thouless) Nobel Prize for Physics 1991 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Member French Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences Foreign Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Royal Society Foreign Member English Ancestry Maternal
French Ancestry
German Ancestry Paternal
Portuguese Ancestry Paternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Les palmes de M. Schutz (9-Apr-1997)
Author of books:
The Physics of Liquid Crystals (1974, physics) Scaling Concepts of Polymer Physics (1979, physics) Simple Views on Condensed Matter (1992, physics) Fragile Objects (1994, physics) Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves (2003, physics; with Françoise Brochard-Wyart) Petit Point (2003, satire)
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