Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Awards

1. 1990

   Wolf Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.

2. 1991

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers