Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Affiliations: 
Physics Collège de France, Paris, Île-de-France, France 
Area:
polymer physics, interfacial problems
Website:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/gennes.html
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(1932 - 2007)
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2018.0033
DOI: 10.1063/1.2774111 ... PGG was at Saclay at the Atomic Energy Commission, where he completed his thesis with J. Yvon and A. Herpin on the scattering of neutrons ...
DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1859
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2007/may/24/soft-matter-pioneer-dies
https://history.aip.org/phn/11710002.html
https://wolffund.org.il/2018/12/09/pierre-gilles-de-gennes/
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/materials/public/DeGennes/DeGennesintro_fr1252.htm
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/materials/public/DeGennes/DeGennes_fr1252.htm
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes. Contribution à l'étude de la diffusion magnétique des neutrons. Condensed Matter. thesis Universite, 1957. French. Ce travail, entrepris sous la haute autorité de Monsieur le Professeur F. Perrin.... ... Il a été constamment guidé par Monsieur A. Herpin
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 was awarded to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes "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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Parents

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André Herpin grad student 1957 Universite de Paris
Francis Perrin grad student 1957 Universite de Paris
 (Contribution à l'étude de la diffusion magnétique des neutrons)
Charles Kittel post-doc 1959 UC Berkeley

Children

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Piero Baglioni grad student
Susan Daniel grad student (E-Tree)
Raphael Elie grad student
Florent Saulnier grad student
Etienne Guyon grad student 1965 CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sud
Christiane Caroli grad student 1966
Guy Deutscher grad student 1967 Université Paris-Sud 11
Françoise Brochard-Wyart grad student 1968-1974 Université Paris-Sud 11 (Neurotree)
Liliane Léger grad student 1971-1976 CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sud
Stanislas Leibler grad student 1984 Université Paris-Sud 11
Jean-François Joanny grad student 1985 College de France
Geneviève Guillot grad student 1986 Université Paris-Sud 11
Thomas Andrew Waigh post-doc Collège de France, Paris (Chemistry Tree)
Philip Pincus post-doc 1962 CEA Saclay
Patricia E. Cladis post-doc 1969-1972 Paris Saclay University - Paris Sud University
Ludwik Leibler post-doc 1976-1978 College de France
Steve Granick post-doc 1983 College de France
Régine Perzynski post-doc 1984
David Andelman post-doc 1984-1985
Martien A. Cohen Stuart post-doc 1985-1986 College de France (Chemistry Tree)
Hernan A. Makse post-doc 1996-1997 Collège de France, Paris (Chemistry Tree)
Mohamed Daoud research scientist Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay

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Manoj K. Chaudhury collaborator (E-Tree)
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Koulakis JP, Mitescu CD, Brochard-Wyart F, et al. (2008) The viscous catenary revisited: Experiments and theory Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 609: 87-110
Brochard-Wyart F, de Gennes PG. (2007) Naive model for stick-slip processes. The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter. 23: 439-44
Brochard-Wyart F, De Gennes PG. (2007) The viscous catenary: A poor man's approach Epl. 80
Wu-Bavouzet F, Clain-Burckbuchler J, Buguin A, et al. (2007) Stick-slip: Wet versus dry Journal of Adhesion. 83: 761-784
Deutscher G, de Gennes PG. (2007) A spatial interpretation of emerging superconductivity in lightly doped cuprates Comptes Rendus Physique. 8: 937-941
Buguin A, Brochard F, de Gennes PG. (2006) Motions induced by asymmetric vibrations. The solid/solid case. The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter. 19: 31-6
Daniel S, Chaudhury MK, de Gennes PG. (2005) Vibration-actuated drop motion on surfaces for batch microfluidic processes. Langmuir : the Acs Journal of Surfaces and Colloids. 21: 4240-8
Brochard-Wyart F, Tanaka T, Borghi N, et al. (2005) Semiflexible polymers confined in soft tubes. Langmuir : the Acs Journal of Surfaces and Colloids. 21: 4144-8
Borghi N, Alias K, de Gennes PG, et al. (2005) Wetting fibers with liposomes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 285: 61-6
Sakaue T, Raphaël E, De Gennes PG, et al. (2005) Flow injection of branched polymers inside nanopores Europhysics Letters. 72: 83-88
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