oct 16, 1991 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for phase transition theory of polymers
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He discovered "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 polymer."(https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1991/press-release/)
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oct 16, 1991
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~ 33 years ago