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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Scientist · born October 24, 1932 · died 2007

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.

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  1. ~55Received the Matteucci Medal1987
  2. ~58Received the Wolf Prize in Physics1990
  3. ~58Received the Lorentz Medal1990
  4. ~59Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1991

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