Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist born in Paris on October 24, 1932, and he passed away in Orsay on May 18, 2007. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 for his discovery that methods used to study ordering phenomena in simple systems could be generalized to more complex forms of matter, particularly in liquid crystals and polymers.
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October 24, 1932 Facts
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes belongs to the Silent Generation group.
Place of Birth: 16th arrondissement of Paris
Place of Death: Orsay
Cause of Death: cancer
Educated At: Lycée Claude-Bernard | Lycée Saint-Louis | École de Physique des Houches | École Normale Supérieure
Occupation: physicist
Children: Matthieu Wyart | Claire Wyart | Marc de Gennes | Christian de Gennes | Marie-Christine Picard de Gennes
Employers: Curie Institute | University of Paris-Sud | ESPCI Paris, PSL University | Collège de France | University of California, Berkeley | Leiden University
Awards Received: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science | honorary doctorate at the Laval University | honorary doctorate of the University of Vigo | honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke | Polymer Physics Prize | F. A. Cotton Medal | honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Humboldt Research Fellowship | Wolfgang Ostwald Prize | Prize Louis Ancel | Bourke Award | Foreign Member of the Royal Society | Eringen Medal | ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry | Onsager Medal | CNRS Gold medal | Harvey Prize | Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize | Matteucci Medal | CNRS silver medal | Humboldt Prize | Wolf Prize in Physics | Lorentz Medal | Holweck Prize | Prix Ampère | Nobel Prize in Physics
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Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on October 24, 2025 | Secondary Progressions for October 24, 2025 |
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| Sun | 1 Scorpio 4 | 1 Scorpio 32 | 5 Aquarius 18 |
| Moon | 24 Leo 53 | 6 Sagittarius 19 | 1 Aquarius 51 |
| Mercury | 16 Scorpio 57 | 24 Scorpio 43 | 26 Capricorn 22 |
| Venus | 20 Virgo 1 | 13 Libra 27 | 14 Capricorn 6 |
| Mars | 19 Leo 34 | 22 Scorpio 18 | 20 Virgo 8 |
| Jupiter | 15 Virgo 16 | 24 Cancer 38 | 22 Virgo 28 |
| Saturn | 28 Capricorn 44 | 26 Pisces 3 | 7 Aquarius 7 |
| Uranus | 20 Aries 59 | 0 Gemini 33 | 19 Aries 46 |
| Neptune | 9 Virgo 32 | 29 Pisces 56 | 9 Virgo 40 |
| Pluto | 23 Cancer 27 | 1 Aquarius 23 | 22 Cancer 4 |
| Rahu | 14 Pisces 31 | 15 Pisces 47 | 9 Pisces 35 |
| Ketu | 14 Virgo 31 | 15 Virgo 47 | 9 Virgo 35 |
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