P. G. de Gennes

P. G. de Gennes publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where P. G. de Gennes sits on this spectrum.

P. G. de Gennes D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where P. G. de Gennes sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 1998 - A.C. Eringen Medal
• 1991 - 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
• 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1986 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering and leading role in a variety of fields in condensedmatter theory and polymer physics

Overview

Best Publications

• The physics of liquid crystals

  P. G. de Gennes;Richard Alben

  21462
  Citations

• Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics

  P. G. de Gennes;Thomas A. Witten

  21391
  Citations

• Reptation of a Polymer Chain in the Presence of Fixed Obstacles

  P. G. de Gennes

  5765
  Citations

• Effects of Double Exchange in Magnetic Crystals

  P. G. de Gennes

  4195
  Citations

• Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes;Françoise Brochard-Wyart;David Quéré

  3846
  Citations

• Conformations of Polymers Attached to an Interface

  P. G. de Gennes

  3096
  Citations

• Protein—surface interactions in the presence of polyethylene oxide

  S.I Jeon;J.H Lee;J.D Andrade;P.G De Gennes

  2225
  Citations

• Polymers at an interface; a simplified view

  P.G. de Gennes

  2184
  Citations

• Microemulsions and the flexibility of oil/water interfaces

  P. G. De Gennes;C. Taupin

  1665
  Citations

• Bound Fermion states on a vortex line in a type II superconductor

  C. Caroli;P.G. De Gennes;J. Matricon

  1523
  Citations

• Coil-stretch transition of dilute flexible polymers under ultrahigh velocity gradients

  P. G. De Gennes

  1398
  Citations

• A model for contact angle hysteresis

  J. F. Joanny;P. G. de Gennes

  1306
  Citations

• Solutions of flexible polymers. Neutron experiments and interpretation.

  M. Daoud;J. P. Cotton;B. Farnoux;G. Jannink

  1235
  Citations

• Dynamics of Entangled Polymer Solutions. I. The Rouse Model

  P. G. De Gennes

  1196
  Citations

• Dynamics of fluctuations and spinodal decomposition in polymer blends

  P. G. de Gennes

  1191
  Citations

• Remarks on polyelectrolyte conformation

  P.G. De Gennes;P. Pincus;R.M. Velasco;F. Brochard

  1085
  Citations

• Polymer solutions near an interface. Adsorption and depletion layers

  P. G. De Gennes

  969
  Citations

• Statistics of « starburst » polymers

  P.G. de Gennes;H. Hervet

  920
  Citations

• Theory of magnetic suspensions in liquid crystals

  F. Brochard;P.G. de Gennes

  890
  Citations

• Anomalies de résistivité dans certains métaux magníques

  P.G. De Gennes;J. Friedel

  746
  Citations

• Statistics of macromolecular solutions trapped in small pores

  M. Daoud;P.G. De Gennes

  726
  Citations