Pierre-Gilles de GENNES

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Physicist

FrenchBorn Pierre-Gilles de GENNES

French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991

Born on October 24, 1932 in Paris, France , France

Died on May 18, 2007 in Orsay, France

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De Gennes was born in Paris, France and was home-schooled to the age of 12. Later, de Gennes studied at the École Normale Supérieure. After leaving the École in 1955, he became a research engineer at the Saclay center of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, working mainly on neutron scattering and magnetism, with advice from A. Abragam and J. Friedel. He defended his Ph.D. in 1957.



In 1959, he was a postdoctoral visitor with C. Kittel at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent 27 months in the French Navy. In 1961, he was assistant professor in Orsay and soon started the Orsay group on superconductors. In 1968, he switched to studying liquid crystals.

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