Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
de Gennes in 2006
Born(1932-10-24)24 October 1932
Died18 May 2007(2007-05-18) (aged 74)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Paris-Saclay University
Known forBeing the founder of soft matter physics
Landau–de Gennes theory
Polymer physics
Reptation
Liquid crystalline elastomer
Bogoliubov–de Gennes equation
de Gennes–Alexander theory
Caroli–de Gennes–Matricon state
Fisher–de Gennes scaling
Children7, including Claire Wyart
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Soft matter
Superconductivity
Institutions
Thesis Contribution à l'étude de la diffusion magnétique des neutrons  (1957)
Doctoral advisorFrancis Perrin

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (French: [ʒɛn]; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference formemrs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Joanny, Jean-François; Pincus, Philip A. (August 2007). "Obituary: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes". Physics Today. 60 (8): 71–72. Bibcode:2007PhT....60h..71J. doi:10.1063/1.2774111.
  3. ^ Pierre-Gilles de Gennes on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata including the Nobel Lecture, 9 December 1991 Soft Matter
  4. ^ An Obituary of Gennes in the Hindu.com
  5. ^ Ajdari, Armand (July 2007). "Physics. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932-2007)". Science. 317 (5837): 466. doi:10.1126/science.1146688. PMID 17656713. S2CID 118920054.