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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de 1932-2007. French physicist who won a 1991 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the understanding of how complex forms of matter, such as liquid crystals and polymers, undergo structural changes.
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“Currently de Gennes is working at the Institut Curie (Paris), an interdisciplinary center and hospital on cancer research.”
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“Pierre-Gilles de Gennes developed the theory for the behavior of liquid crystals and their transitions between different ordered phases (nematic, smectic, etc).”
“Also in these materials, de Gennes has found analogies with critical phenomena appearing in magnetic and superconducting materials.”
“Another large field, where de Gennes has been very active, is that of polymer physics.”
“De Gennes found the explanation in the special way the molecules of a liquid crystal are ordered.”
“De Gennes has generalized the description of order for media of this type and been able to see analogies with, e.g. magnetic and superconducting materials.”
“De Gennes has discovered relations between different, seemingly quite unrelated, fields of physics - connections which nobody has seen before.”
“De Gennes has shown that mathematical models, developed for studying simpler systems, are applicable also to such complicated systems.”
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