What is Pierre-Gilles de Gennes?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | image = Pierre-Gilles crop.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|10|24|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|5|18|1932|10|24|df=y}} | death_place = [[Orsay]], [[France]] | nationality = [[France|French]] | field = [[Physics]] | work_institution = {{Plainlist| * [[ESPCI Paris|ESPCI]] * [[Collège de France]] * [[University of Paris XI]]}} | alma_mater = [[École Normale Supérieure]]<br />[[University of Paris-Saclay|Paris-Saclay University]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Soft matter]]<br>[[Polymer physics]]<br>[[Reptation]]<br>[[Liquid crystalline elastomer]] | prizes = {{Plainlist| * [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] <small>(1984)</small> * [[Matteucci Medal]] <small>(1987)</small> * [[Harvey Prize]] <small>(1988)</small> * [[Lorentz Medal]] <small>(1990)</small> * [[Wolf Prize]] <small>(1990)</small> * [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] <small>(1991)</small> * [[Eringen Medal]] <small>(1998)</small>}} | children = 7, including [[Claire Wyart]] }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Pierre-Gilles de Gennes''' ({{IPA-fr|ʒɛn|lang}}; 24 October 1932 &ndash; 18 May 2007) was a [[France|French]] physicist. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Joanny, Jean-François|author2=Pincus, Philip A.|title=Obituary: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes|journal=Physics Today|date=August 2007|volume=60|issue=8|pages=71–72|doi=10.1063/1.2774111|bibcode = 2007PhT....60h..71J }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070602182102/http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/31/stories/2007053102061100.htm An Obituary of Gennes in the Hindu.com]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Ajdari |first=Armand |date=July 2007 |title=Physics. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932-2007) |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=317 |issue=5837 |pages=466 | pmid = 17656713