Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French physicist · France · Scientists · Lived 1932 to 2007 · aged 74
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Something wrong?Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
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2007Died18 May 20071998Eringen MedalAward1997F. A. Cotton MedalAward1996Fellow of the Australian Academy of ScienceAward1991Nobel Prize in PhysicsAwardWolfgang Ostwald PrizeAward1990Lorentz MedalAward1988ACS Award in Polymer ChemistryAwardHarvey PrizeAward1984Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1982Polymer Physics PrizeAward1980CNRS Gold medalAward1976Bourke AwardAward1968Holweck PrizeAward1959Prize Louis AncelAward1932Born24 October 1932
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Lived 1932 to 2007 · aged 74
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