| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes  Born: 24-Oct-1932
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 18-May-2007
Location of death: Orsay, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Molecular structure of polymers Military service: French Navy (1959-61) French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, for his studies of liquid crystals and polymers, topics previously thought to be too chaotic to be subjected to the rigorous analysis of physics. His work with complex fluids showed that methods already used to study the physics of simple systems could be adapted to study the behavior of molecules and molecular chains in soft matter. Father: Robert Joachim Pierre de Gennes (physician)
Mother: Marthe Marie Yvonne Morin-Pons (nurse)
Wife: Anne Marie Elisabeth Eugènie Rouet (m. 1954, until his death, three children)
University: PhD, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (1955)
Scholar: Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1958-59)
Professor: Solid-State Physics, Paris-South University (1961-71)
Professor: Physics, Collège de France (1971-2002)
Administrator: College of Physics and Chemistry, Paris (1976-2002)
French Atomic Energy Commission Research (1955-59)
IOP Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize 1968
AMPERE Prize 1977
Matteucci Medal 1987
Harvey Prize 1988
Lorentz Medal 1990
Wolf Prize in Physics 1990 (with David J. Thouless)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1991
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Member
French Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Royal Society Foreign Member
English Ancestry Maternal
French Ancestry
German Ancestry Paternal
Portuguese Ancestry Paternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Les palmes de M. Schutz (9-Apr-1997)
Author of books:
The Physics of Liquid Crystals (1974, physics)
Scaling Concepts of Polymer Physics (1979, physics)
Simple Views on Condensed Matter (1992, physics)
Fragile Objects (1994, physics)
Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves (2003, physics; with Françoise Brochard-Wyart)
Petit Point (2003, satire)
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