Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932-May 18, 2007) won the 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".

• Françoise Brochard-Wyart "Obituary: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)", Nature 448 p. 149 (2007)

Related reading

• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes "Soft Matter", Nobel Lecture, December 9, 1991

Books by de Gennes

• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Francoise Brochard-Wyart and David Quere "Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves" (2004)
• Pierre-Gilles De Gennes and J. Prost "Physics of Liquid Crystals" (1995)
• Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, "Simple Views on Condensed Matter" (2003)
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Jacques Badoz "Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery"
• Pierre-Giles de Gennes "SCALING CONCEPTS IN POLYMER PHYSICS" Cornell University Press (1979)