Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
Background
- Born in
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Educated at
- École Normale SupérieureLes Houches School of PhysicsLycée Saint-LouisLycée Claude-Bernard
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Prix Ampère🏆 Holweck Prize🏆 Lorentz Medal🏆 Wolf Prize in Physics
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Francis Perrin🎓 Charles Kittel
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Bernard Cabane
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1932
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Birth2007
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