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Nobel-laureate physicist

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.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (–) was the only child of affluent aristocratic parents.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (–) was the only child of affluent aristocratic parents.

Born in Paris, until the age of 12 Pierre was educated at home by his father, a doctor, and his mother, a nurse.

French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discoveries about the ordering of molecules in liquid crystals and polymers.

Best known outside the scientific community for the Nobel Prize in Physics he won in , Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was exceptional amongst.

According to one of the speakers at the Jubilee, de.

By the age of 13, he had adopted adult reading habits and was visiting museums.^[6] 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 Anatole Abragam and Jacques Friedel.

He defended his Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Paris.^[7][8]

Career and research

In 1959, he was a postdoctoral research visitor with Charles Kittel at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent 27 months in the