Pierre-gilles De Gennes: A Life In Science

Best known outside the scientific community for the Nobel Prize in Physics, he won in 1991, Pierre Gilles de Cannes was exceptional amongst scientists for the breadth and depth of his contributions in multiple fields of physics. He was also much ahead of his time in his desire to break down barriers within scientific disciplines, and between fundamental and applied science He was equally unusual in his willingness to explain the nature and purpose of his work to society at large and to youn...