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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes has received more than 239,217 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is the 264th most popular physicist (down from 245th in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from France (up from 1,154th in 2019) and the 26th 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 264 out of 851. Before him are Rainer Weiss, Syukuro Manabe, Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, and John Cockcroft. After him are Daniel Rutherford, John Vincent Atanasoff, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Andrew Huxley, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 60. Before him are Harriet Andersson, John Searle, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Algirdas Brazauskas, Rainer Weiss, and Nam June Paik. After him are Piper Laurie, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, Stephen Covey, Robert Vaughn, Meir Kahane, and David Scott. Among people deceased in 2007, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 31. Before him are Nils Liedholm, Abdul Rahman Arif, Richard Rorty, Jane Wyman, Arthur Kornberg, and Ashraf Marwan. After him are Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, Momofuku Ando, Alan MacDiarmid, and Henri Troyat.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 1,069 out of 6,770. Before him are Aimery of Cyprus (1172), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Joseph Liouville (1809), Pierre Larousse (1817), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), and Lazare Hoche (1768). After him are Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Claude Jade (1948), Thomas Couture (1815), Michel Rolle (1652), and Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ranks 26. Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Alain Aspect (1947), Edme Mariotte (1620), Gérard Mourou (1944), and Claude-Louis Navier (1785). After him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), and Paul-Jacques Curie (1855).

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