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French Nobel Prize-winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes dies at 74

MAY 22, 2007

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021137

Physics Today
Earthtimes.org : French winner of the Nobel Prize for physics Pierre- Gilles de Gennes has died at the age of 74, his family said Tuesday in Paris. The scientist and engineer passed away on Friday. He was awarded science’s most distinguished prize in 1991 for his work on the behaviour of molecules and molecular chains in liquid crystals.
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