biography
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Gennes, Pierre-Gillies de
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pronunciation:
[zhen]
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| Physicist, born in Paris. Educated at the École Normale, Paris, he was a research engineer at the Atomic Energy Centre, Saclay (1955–9), and following a period in the French navy joined the University of Orsay (1961–71). In 1971 he became professor at the Collège de France, Paris. His research interests span superconductivity, polymers, liquid crystals, and interfaces. He was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on order–disorder phase transitions in such complex systems as liquid crystals and polymer solutions. |
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