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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">De Gennes Prize</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Awarded for</th><td class="infobox-data">Outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Sponsored by</th><td class="infobox-data">Royal Society of Chemistry</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">2008<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2008</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Reward(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">£3000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/deGennesPrize/">www<wbr />.rsc<wbr />.org<wbr />/ScienceAndTechnology<wbr />/Awards<wbr />/deGennesPrize<wbr />/</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>De Gennes Prize</b> (formerly known as the Prize for Materials Chemistry) was established in 2008 and is awarded biennially by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry" title="Royal Society of Chemistry">Royal Society of Chemistry</a> for outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry. The de Gennes Prize honours the work of <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes" title="Pierre-Gilles de Gennes">Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RSC2014_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSC2014-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The recipient of the de Gennes Prize receives £5000, a medal and certificate and completes a UK lecture tour.<sup id="cite_ref-RSC2014_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSC2014-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was born in Paris, France, in 1932. After graduating in 1955 from Ecole Normale, de Gennes was a research engineer at the Atomic Energy Centre (Saclay). After a brief time at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> and 27 months in the French Navy, de Gennes became assistant professor at the University of Paris in Orsay. During his time at Orsay de Gennes worked on superconductors and liquid crystals.<sup id="cite_ref-Nobelprize2005_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nobelprize2005-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for studying the boundary lines between order and disorder in materials like liquid crystals.<sup id="cite_ref-Chang2007_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chang2007-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After receiving the Nobel Prize, de Gennes visited roughly 200 high schools over a two-year period, from 1992 to 1994, in which he delivered talks on science, innovation and common sense to the students. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died at the age of 74, on 18 May 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Nobelprize2005_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nobelprize2005-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chang2007_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chang2007-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Winners">Winners</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=De_Gennes_Prize&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Winners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/deGennesPrize/previouswinners.asp">Royal Society of Chemistry</a> </p> <ul><li><span class="vevent">2009<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published 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itvstart">2017</span>)</span>: <span class="summary"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ian_Manners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ian Manners (page does not exist)">Ian Manners</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q21165125#sitelinks-wikipedia" class="extiw" title="d:Special:EntityPage/Q21165125"><span title=""Ian Manners" in other languages">Wikidata</span></a>]</span>, University of Bristol</span></span></li> <li><span class="vevent">2019<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2019</span>)</span>: <span class="summary"><a href="/wiki/Eugenia_Kumacheva" title="Eugenia Kumacheva">Eugenia Kumacheva</a>, University of Toronto</span></span></li> <li><span class="vevent">2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021</span>)</span>: <span class="summary"><a href="/wiki/Chad_Mirkin" title="Chad Mirkin">Chad Mirkin</a>, Northwestern University</span></span></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Thuc-Quyen_Nguyen" title="Thuc-Quyen Nguyen">Thuc-Quyen Nguyen</a>, University of California Santa Barbara.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=De_Gennes_Prize&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chemistry_awards" title="List of chemistry awards">List of chemistry awards</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=De_Gennes_Prize&action=edit&section=3" 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