Person
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932 – 2007 · aged 75
French physicist
- Born
- 24 Oct 1932 · 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- 18 May 2007 · Orsay
Life timeline
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- 24 Oct 1932BornBorn in 16th arrondissement of Paris
- 1959AwardPrize Louis Ancel
- c. 1960AwardCNRS silver medal
- 1968AwardHolweck Prize
- 1976AwardBourke Award
- 1977AwardPrix Ampère
- 1980AwardCNRS Gold medal
- 1982AwardPolymer Physics Prize
- 1983AwardGay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize
- 1984AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1987AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1988AwardHarvey Prize
- 1988AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke
- 18 May 2007DiedDied in Orsay
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1932 – 2007).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (French: [pjɛʁ ʒil də ʒɛn]; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
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