Awards & Winners

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Date of Birth 24-October-1932
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France
Profession Physicist
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.

Awards by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

1991


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)

1990


Wolf Prize in Physics
(For a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.)
Lorentz Medal