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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

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Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Full Name
of the recipient		Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1991
Share in Award100.0%
Award Shared with
Motivation
for the Award		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
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		College de France, Paris, France
Place of BirthParis, France FRA
Date of Birth24 October 1932
Age
at the time of Award		58 years
Place of DeathOrsay, France FRA
Date of Death18 May 2007
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