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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)

Nature volume 448, page 149 (2007)Cite this article

Pioneer of soft-matter physics.

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  1. Françoise Brochard-Wyart is at the Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, cedex 05, France, and at the University of Paris 6. She was a scientific collaborator of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for 35 years. brochard@curie.fr,

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Brochard-Wyart, F. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007). Nature 448, 149 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448149a

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