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| | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932-May 18, 2007) |
| '''Pierre-Gilles de Gennes''' (October 24, 1932-May 18, 2007) won the [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/index.html Nobel Prize for physics in 1991] "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".
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/448149a Françoise Brochard-Wyart "Obituary: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)", Nature '''448''' p. 149 (2007)]
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| ==Publications list==
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.57.827 P. G. de Gennes "Wetting: statics and dynamics", Reviews of Modern Physics '''57''' pp. 827-863 (1985)]
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| Books:
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| *[http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-102-22-7109793-0&changeHeader=true&SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/978-0-387-00592-8 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Francoise Brochard-Wyart and David Quere "Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves" (2004)]
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| *[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/MaterialsScience/?view=usa&ci=9780198517856 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes and J. Prost "Physics of Liquid Crystals" (1995)]
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| *[http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5201.html Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, "Simple Views on Condensed Matter" (2003)]
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| *Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Jacques Badoz "Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery"
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| *[http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=493 Pierre-Giles de Gennes " Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics" Cornell University Press (1979)] ISBN 978-0-8014-1203-5
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| ==Related reading==
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| *[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/gennes-lecture.pdf Pierre-Gilles de Gennes "Soft Matter", Nobel Lecture, December 9, 1991]
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| * Laurence Plevert "Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science", World Scientific Publishing Company (2011) ISBN 978-9814355254
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