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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Nobel-laureate physicist
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (French:[ʒɛn]; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.[2][3][4][5]
Education and early life
He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12.
By the age of 13, he had adopted adult reading habits and was visiting museums.[6] Later, de Gennes studied at the École Normale Supérieure.
Pierre-gilles de gennes biography of albert einstein
After leaving the École in 1955, he became a research engineer at the Saclay center of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, working mainly on neutron scattering and magnetism, with advice from Anatole Abragam and Jacques Friedel.
He defended his Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Paris.[7][8]
Career and research
In 1959, he was a postdoctoral research visitor with Charles Kittel at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent 27 months in the