In the history of science, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pierre-Gilles de Gennes as French physicist.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was born at 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1932. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Lycée Claude-Bernard and École Normale Supérieure.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is described as physicist, theoretical physicist and professor.
His affiliations include Collège de France, University of California, Berkeley and Leiden University.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are physics.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1991).
That the work was done from France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2007, at 75. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1991
- Affiliated with Collège de France, University of California, Berkeley and Leiden University
- Educated at Lycée Claude-Bernard, École Normale Supérieure and Lycée Saint-Louis
- Worked as physicist, theoretical physicist and professor
