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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1932 - 2007

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is the 257th most popular physicist (up from 265th in 2019), the 951st most popular biography from France (up from 1,069th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Physicist.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist who was most famous for his work in the field of surface physics. He is credited with the discovery of the laws of friction and the invention of the atomic force microscope.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 257 out of 851. Before him are Jim Peebles, Benjamin Thompson, Leon M. Lederman, John L. Hall, John Archibald Wheeler, and Igor Kurchatov. After him are Abdus Salam, Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, Julian Schwinger, Toshihide Maskawa, and Carlo Rubbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 56. Before him are V. S. Naipaul, Algirdas Brazauskas, Little Richard, Vladimir Ivashko, Vytautas Landsbergis, and John Searle. After him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Robert Mundell, Hiroaki Sato, Ted Kennedy, Stephen Covey, and Robert Benton. Among people deceased in 2007, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 34. Before him are Jerry Falwell, Deborah Kerr, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Arthur Kornberg, Paul Tibbets, and Nils Liedholm. After him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Abdul Rahman Arif, Alan MacDiarmid, Paul Lauterbur, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Miller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 951 out of 6,770. Before him are Bruno Cremer (1929), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), Bertrada of Laon (720), Marie Laforêt (1939), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), and Georges Brassens (1921). After him are Jean Anouilh (1910), John I of Aragon (1350), Louis Couturat (1868), Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Germaine of Foix (1488), and Louis Vuitton (1821).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 25. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Edme Mariotte (1620), Jacques Charles (1763), and Gérard Mourou (1944). After him are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Alain Aspect (1947), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785).

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