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    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. He was...
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    The Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (IPGG) or Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la microfluidique is a French research center dedicated to microfluidics...
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  • is based on the classical Landau's theory and was developed by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in 1969. The phenomonological theory uses the Q {\displaystyle...
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    nationale de chimie physique et biologie de Paris (ENCPB), renamed in 2009 "lycée Pierre-Gilles-de-Gennes - ENCPB" after physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died...
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    grandmother, Pierre Curie is also a direct descendant of the Basel scientist and mathematician Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748), as is Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, winner...
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  • Jean Dubois de Gennes (1895–1929), World War I flying ace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner De Gennes Prize, awarded...
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    Soft matter (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    surfaces, they become squashed without an external compressive force. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who has been called the "founding father of soft matter," received...
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  • chains as being analogous to snakes slithering through one another. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes introduced (and named) the concept of reptation into polymer physics...
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  • of materials chemistry. The de Gennes Prize honours the work of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. The recipient of the de Gennes Prize receives £5000, a medal...
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  • was applied to thermal neutron scattering by Leon van Hove and Pierre Gilles de Gennes (quasielastic neutron scattering, QENS). Finally, it is sometimes...
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    students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the...
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  • notably in an article by Leon van Hove and in a highly cited one by Pierre Gilles de Gennes. QENS is typically investigated on high-resolution spectrometers...
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    microscopic swimmers and active colloids". In 2017 he was awarded the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize. Ramin Golestanian is now director at the Max Planck...
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    Françoise Brochard-Wyart (category Collège de France alumni)
    supervision of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. She obtained her PhD in 1974. Following her PhD she went on to study the dynamics of polymers at the Collège de France...
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    Gilles de Rais (c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the...
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  • fellow at the Collège de France in Paris under the direction of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. He is a researcher in Centre National de Recherche Scientifique...
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  • Sam Edwards expanding on the concept of reptation introduced by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in 1971. In 1996 he authored the textbook Introduction to Polymer...
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  • he would go on to lead this team until 1965. It is here where Pierre-Gilles de Gennes studied for his graduate degree. In 1952, aged 28, he resigned...
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    military service, he joined the research group of Nobel Laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at the university of Paris-Sud (Orsay). The group was later known...
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    physics. French scientists contributed a lot since the 70s (e.g. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, J. des Cloizeaux). Doi and Edwards wrote a very famous book in...
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    Georges Cuvier Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville Jean Darcet Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Émile Deschanel Georges Duby Georges...
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    been cited more than 14000 times. He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research...
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    273. Bibcode:1921PhRv...17..273W. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.17.273. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quéré, Capillarity and Wetting...
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  • (Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Chapter 2, p.23. Retrieved 1/19/2007. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes; Françoise Brochard-Wyart; David Quéré (2002). Capillary and Wetting...
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    wife-and-husband researching couples awarded with the Nobel Prize Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Physics, 1991 43% of all scientific women Nobel prize laureates...
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    contributing to the advent of molecular electronics. 1991 (Physics) Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for developing a generalized theory of phase transitions with particular...
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    Minnesota with M. V. Tirrell and at the Collège de France with Nobel-laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. Granick joined the faculty of the University of...
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    nanotechnology. University of Paris-Sud comprised some 104 research units. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Albert Fert, two Nobel Prize winners of physics, were affiliated...
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    Georges Charpak – B.A and Professor – Nobel in Physics – 1992 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – B.A and Professor – Nobel in Physics – 1991 Louis Néel – B.A...
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    Barcelonnette (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    orator. Paul Reynaud (1878–1966), liberal politician and lawyer Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007), physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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