Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | |
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École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay University | |
Known for | Being the founder of soft matter physics Polymer physics Reptation Liquid crystalline elastomer Bogoliubov–DeGennes equation |
Children | 7, including Claire Wyart |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics Soft matter Superconductivity |
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (French: [ʒɛn]; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.[2][3][4][5]
Education and early life
He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of 13, he had adopted adult reading habits and was visiting museums.[6] Later, de Gennes studied at the
Career and research
In 1959, he was a
In 1971, he became professor at the Collège de France, and participated in STRASACOL (a joint action of Strasbourg, Saclay and Collège de France) on polymer physics. From 1980 on, he became interested in interfacial problems: the dynamics of wetting and adhesion.
He worked on granular materials and on the nature of memory objects in the brain.
Awards and honours
Awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1968.
He was awarded the
P.G. de Gennes has also received the
He was awarded the above-mentioned Nobel Prize 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".
The
Personal life
He married Anne-Marie Rouet [12][6] (born in 1933) in June 1954.[13] They remained married until his death and had three children together: Christian (born 9 December 1954), Dominique (born 6 May 1956) and Marie-Christine (born 11 January 1958).[13]
He also has four children with physicist Françoise Brochard-Wyart (born in 1944) who was one of his former doctoral students and then colleague and co-author.[12] The children are: Claire Wyart (born 16 February 1977),[14] Matthieu Wyart (born 24 May 1978),[15] Olivier Wyart (born 3 August 1984) and Marc de Gennes (born 16 January 1991).[13]
Professors
In 2003 he was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.[17]
On 22 May 2007, his death was made public as official messages and tributes poured in.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015.
- .
- ^ Pierre-Gilles de Gennes on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 9 December 1991 Soft Matter
- ^ An Obituary of Gennes in the Hindu.com
- S2CID 118920054.
- ^ ISBN 978-981-4355-25-4.
- ^ Selected bibliography on the College de France website Archived 2010-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Nature des Objets de mémoire : le cas de l'olfaction Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine conférence novembre 2006.(in French)
- ISBN 978-0-19-954940-5
- ^ "de Gennes Prize". Royal Society of Chemistry.
- S2CID 127231807.
- ^ S2CID 35082004.
- ^ a b c "Pierre-Gilles de Gennes", Wikipédia (in French), 11 July 2019, retrieved 8 August 2019
- ^ "Spinal Sensory Signalling | Development, Locomotion & Posture, Pathology". wyartlab.org. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ "Prof. Matthieu Wyart". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Notable Signers". Humanism and Its Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
External links
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 9 December 1991 Soft Matter