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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French
Physicist
Born:
Oct 24
,
1932
Died:
May 18
,
2007
Acid
Beautiful
Experiment
Matter
Thinking
Which
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Richard P. Feynman
Stephen Hawking
Werner Heisenberg
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Ugly
Matter
Young
Complex
Rather
Tends
Students
Name
Call
Discourage
American
Which
Mean
Prefer
Soft
Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Beautiful
Natural
Experiment
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Small
Tends
Poured
He
Performed
Dense
Common
Form
Acid
Which
Pond
Interface
Using
Film
Amount
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