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Archival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectPierre-Gilles de Gennes
Dates
October 24, 1932 – May 18, 2007
Authorized Form of Name
Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de
Additional Forms of Names
De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles
Gennes, P. G. de (Pierre Gilles)
Gennes, Pierre-G. de
Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de, 1932-2007
Жен, Пьер Жиль де, 1932-2007
دي،, جين، بيير ج., 1932-2007
Biography
Abstract
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a condensed matter physicist at the Collège de France. He was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics "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."
Important Dates
October 24, 1932Birth, Paris (France).
1955Obtained PhD in Physics, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris (France).
1955 – 1957Research Engineer, Atomic Energy Center, Saclay (France).
1959Postdoctoral student, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1961Assistant Professor, University of Paris (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1971Participant, STRASACOL (a joint action of Strasbourg, Saclay and College de France).
1971 – 1976Professor, Collège de France, Paris (France).
1976 – 2002Director, Ecole de Physique et Chimie (ESPCI ParisTech), Paris (France).
1984Foreign Member, Royal Society.
1987Awarded the Matteucci Medal.
1988Awarded Harvey Prize.
1990Awarded Lorentz Medal.
1990Awarded Wolf Prize.
1991Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "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".
1991Awarded Physics Prize.
1997Awarded the F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, American Chemical Society.
1998Awarded Eringen Medal.
2005Researcher, Institut Curie (Paris).
May 18, 2007Death, Orsay (France).
Occupation
Condensed matter physicist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Deutscher, Guy
Advised by Gennes at Université d'Orsay Paris-Sud.
Granick, Steve
Advised by Gennes at Collège de France.
Post-doc advisor at University of California, Berkeley.
Leibler, Stanislas
Advised by Gennes at Université d'Orsay Paris-Sud.
Perrin, Francis
PhD advisor at école normale supérieure (ENS Paris).
Pincus, P. A.
Advised by Gennes at Saclay Nuclear Research Center (CEA Saclay).
Additional
Badoz, J.
Institutions
Major Positions
Collège de France
Professor.
Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie (Paris, France)
Director.
Institut Curie
Researcher.
Université de Paris
Assistant Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Chemical Society
Awarded the F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research.
École normale supérieure (France)
Obtained PhD in Physics (1955).
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Foreign Member.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Postdoctoral student.
Resources
Archival Resources
Subject
Selected talks from Corporate Associates Meetings [videorecording] : 1983-1987.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Scaling concepts in polymer physics/ Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
Superconductivity of metals and alloys [by] P.G. de Gennes. Translated by P.A. Pincus.