Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991.
Born: 24, Oct, 1932, Paris, France
Died: 18, May, 2007, Orsay, France
Prize motivation: "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"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Collège de France, Paris, France
Prize share: 1/1