Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991.An Obituary of Gennes in the Hindu.com

In 1971, he became professor at the Collège de France, and participated in STRASACOL (a joint action of Strasbourg, Saclay and Collège de France) on polymer physics.

His works focused on granular materials and the memory of the brain.

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