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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Full Name of the recipient | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1991 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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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 Birth | Paris, France FRA |
Date of Birth | 24 October 1932 |
Age at the time of Award | 58 years |
Place of Death | Orsay, France FRA |
Date of Death | 18 May 2007 |