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...

The Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (IPGG) or Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la microfluidique is a French research center dedicated to microfluidics...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

surfaces, they become squashed without an external compressive force. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who has been called the "founding father of soft matter," received...

students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the...

chains as being analogous to snakes slithering through one another. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes introduced (and named) the concept of reptation into polymer physics...