Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

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French physicist Nobel laureate in Physics human physicist

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on liquid crystals and soft matter physics.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes canonical	4
de Gennes	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French physicist ⓘ Nobel laureate in Physics ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ
awardReceived	CNRS Gold Medal ⓘ Franklin Medal ⓘ Holweck Prize ⓘ Lorentz Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics ⓘ
countryOfBirth	France ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
countryOfDeath	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1932-10-24 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2007-05-18 ⓘ
educatedAt	École Normale (Paris) ⓘ surface form: École Normale Supérieure
employer	Collège de France ⓘ École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris ⓘ surface form: École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
familyName	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: de Gennes
fieldOfWork	condensed matter physics ⓘ liquid crystals ⓘ polymer physics ⓘ soft matter physics ⓘ superconductivity ⓘ
givenName	Pierre-Gilles ⓘ
hasWork	Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics ⓘ The Physics of Liquid Crystals ⓘ
influenced	development of soft matter physics as a discipline ⓘ
knownFor	applications of statistical physics to complex materials ⓘ scaling concepts in polymer physics ⓘ soft matter physics ⓘ theory of liquid crystals ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ French ⓘ
memberOf	Académie des Sciences ⓘ French Academy of Engineering ⓘ surface form: Académie des Technologies American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Académie des Sciences ⓘ surface form: French Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics ⓘ
NobelPrizeMotivation	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 ⓘ
NobelPrizeYear	1991 ⓘ
notableStudent	Françoise Brochard-Wyart ⓘ Jean-François Joanny ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Paris ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Orsay ⓘ
positionHeld	professor at Collège de France ⓘ professor at École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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Subject: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Description of subject: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on liquid crystals and soft matter physics.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Collège de France → hasNotableProfessor → Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ⓘ

École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris → alumnus → Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ⓘ

École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris → hasNobelLaureate → Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ⓘ

CNRS Gold Medal → notableRecipient → Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ⓘ

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes → familyName → Pierre-Gilles de Gennes self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: de Gennes