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When was Pierre-Gilles De Gennes born?

  • October 24, 1932

  • January 12, 1932

  • July 4, 1932

  • November 22, 1932

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Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, born on October 24, 1932, was a French physicist who made significant contributions to the understanding of polymers, liquid crystals, and soft matter. His pioneering work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 in recognition of his development of methods to study complex systems through the use of scaling laws.
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