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Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

Pierre-Gilles Robert Yves De Gennes

French physicist.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Place of Birth

16th Arrondissement of Paris

Occupation

Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
Professor
University Teacher
Researcher

Country of Citizenship

France

Member Of

Royal Society
French Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
 (1987 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
Start Time
: 1987
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
Australian Academy of Science
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Educated At

Lycée Claude-Bernard
École Normale Supérieure
Lycée Saint-Louis
Les Houches School of Physics

Date of Birth

10/24/1932

Date of Death

5/18/2007

Instance Of

Human

Image

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Place of Death

Orsay

Given Name

Pierre-Gilles
Series Ordinal
:1
Robert
Series Ordinal
:2
Yves
Series Ordinal
:3

Award Received

26 items
CNRS Gold Medal
 (1980)
Followed By
:
Jean-Marie Lehn
Followed By
:
Roland Martin
Follows
:
Pierre Chambon
Point in Time
: 1980
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1991)
Award Rationale
: 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
Award Rationale
: för upptäckten att metoder, som utvecklats för att beskriva ordning i enkla system, kan generaliseras till att gälla mer komplicerade former av materia, särskilt flytande kristaller och polymerer
Point in Time
: 1991
Prize Money
: 6,000,000 Swedish krona
Wolfgang Ostwald Prize
 (1991)
Point in Time
: 1991
Holweck Prize
 (1968)
Point in Time
: 1968
Lorentz Medal
 (1990)
Point in Time
: 1990
Wolf Prize in Physics
 (1990)
Point in Time
: 1990
Harvey Prize
 (1988)
Award Rationale
: Contributions to condensed matter physics through his work in the fields of superconductivity, liquid crystals, polymer physics and colloid and interface science
Country of Citizenship
:
France
Point in Time
: 1988
Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize
 (1983)
Point in Time
: 1983
Matteucci Medal
 (1987)
Point in Time
: 1987
Prize Louis Ancel
 (1959)
Point in Time
: 1959
Onsager Medal
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Prix Ampère
 (1977)
Point in Time
: 1977
Eringen Medal
 (1998)
Point in Time
: 1998
Honorary Doctor of the University of Sherbrooke
 (1988)
Point in Time
: 1988
Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Honorary Doctorate at the Laval University
 (1995)
Point in Time
: 1995
Humboldt Prize
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
 (1996)
Point in Time
: 1996
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Vigo
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
 (6/28/1984)
Point in Time
: 6/28/1984
F. A. Cotton Medal
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Bourke Award
 (1976)
Point in Time
: 1976
Polymer Physics Prize
 (1982)
Point in Time
: 1982
ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
 (1988)
Point in Time
: 1988
CNRS Silver Medal
 (1960s)
Point in Time
: 1960s

Employer

Collège De France
 (1971 - 2007)
Position Held
:
Professor
Start Time
: 1971
End Time
: 2007
University of California, Berkeley
Leiden University
 (1978 - 1978)
Position Held
:
Lorentz Chair
Start Time
: 1978
End Time
: 1978
University of Paris-Sud
Leiden University
 (1978 - )
Position Held
:
Dutch Extraordinary Professor
Part Of
:
Faculteit Der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
Start Time
: 1978
Curie Institute
ESPCI Paris, PSL University

Place of Burial

Cimetière De Montrouge

Child

Claire Wyart
Matthieu Wyart
Marc De Gennes
Christian De Gennes
Marie-Christine Picard De Gennes

Field of Work

Physics

Name in Native Language

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Doctoral Advisor

Charles Kittel
Francis Perrin
André Herpin

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

French

Cause of Death

Cancer

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Family Name

Gennes

Described by Source

Obálky Knih
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
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:99

Assessment

Agrégation of Physics
 (1955)
Point in Time
: 1955
Ranking
: 3

Birth Name

Pierre-Gilles Robert Yves de Gennes

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Unmarried Partner

Françoise Brochard-Wyart

Described at URL

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Relative

Residence

Paris

Interested In

Physics
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Lucien De Gennes
Kinship to Subject
:
Paternal Uncle