Pierre Gilles De Gannes French Physics Nobel Prize Hand Signed Photo

CHAU2415 This is a 6" x 4"" hand signed photo for Pierre Gilles French Physicist and 1991 Nobel Prize winner who has personally hand autographed the photo where his signature rests perfectly accompanying his portrait undedicated and bar just a couple of very light surface imperfections this is mint condition.

Awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1968. He was awarded the Harvey Prize, Lorentz Medal and Wolf Prize in 1988 and 1990. In 1991, he received the Nobel Prize in physics. He was then director of the ÔøΩcole SupÔøΩrieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI), a post he held from 1976 until his retirement in 2002. P.G. de Gennes has also received the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society in 1997, the Holweck Prize from the joint French and British Physical Society; the Ampere Prize, French Academy of Science; the gold medal from the French CNRS; the Matteuci Medal, Italian Academy; the Harvey Prize, Israel; and polymer awards from both APS and ACS. He was awarded the above-mentioned Nobel Prize 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". The Royal Society of Chemistry awards the De Gennes Prize biennially, in his honour. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1984.He was awarded A. Cemal Eringen Medal in 1998.