Quote of the day
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Born: October 24, 1932
Died: May 18, 2007 (aged 74)
Bio: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
Known for:
- The physics of liquid crystals (1974)
- Superconductivity of metals and alloys (1966)
- Simple views on condensed matter (1992)
- Fragile objects (1996)
- Introduction to polymer dynamics (1990)







