Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)