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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
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Born 24 October 1932 · Died 18 May 2007 · Q187224
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2012· 1 entry
2007· 4 entries
Seattle Times: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, dies at 74
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, LCD researcher
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Died 2007-05-18.
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“The real point of honor [for a scientist] is not to be always right. It is to dare to propose new ideas, and then to check them.”
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2003· 1 entry
Was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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1998· 1 entry
Won Eringen Medal (1998).
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1997· 3 entries
Won F. A. Cotton Medal (1997).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Vigo (1997).
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The Holweck Prize from the joint French and British Physical Society; the Ampere Prize, French Academy of Science; the gold medal from the French CNRS; the Matteuci Medal, Italian Academy; the Harvey Prize, Israel; and p
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1995).
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1991).
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Awarded Wolfgang Ostwald Prize (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Won Lorentz Medal (1990).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1990).
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded Harvey Prize (1988).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke (1988).
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Awarded ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Polymer Physics Prize (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Won CNRS Gold medal (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
Took great delight in being inaugurated as a Vignoble de St Émilion
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Ampère (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Bourke Award (1976).
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1971· 1 entry
Became professor at the Collège de France, and participated in STRASACOL (a joint action of Strasbourg, Saclay and Collège de France) on polymer physics
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Holweck Prize (1968).
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1961· 1 entry
Was assistant professor in Orsay and soon started the Orsay group on superconductors
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1960· 1 entry
Won CNRS silver medal (1960).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Prize Louis Ancel (1959).
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Was a postdoctoral research visitor with Charles Kittel at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent 27 months in the French Navy
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1955· 1 entry
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 Anatole Abragam and Jacques Friedel
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-10-24.
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