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ABSTRACT
A contribution of the well-known physicist-theoretician, the Nobel prize laureate P.-G. de Gennes to the liquid crystal research is analyzed. A history of creation by de Gennes of the so-called Orsay liquid crystal group is also described and a brief scientist’s biography is given.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to P.-G. de Gennes’ family (in the face of M.-C. Picard de Gennes), to F. Brochard-Wyart and to L. Plévert for their kind help in my work on the selection of illustrations. Appreciation also goes to J. Prost, D. Langevin, J. Bechhoefer, A. G. Petrov, N. V. Usoltseva, A. S. Sonin, V. G. Kulichikhin, E. I. Kats and A. F. Smyk for clarification of some biographical and scientific questions, useful discussions and valuable comments.
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Notes
1. I had a lucky chance to start my scientific career in 1981–1982 in the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Acad. Sci. (Moscow), in the Laboratory of Liquid Crystals headed by I.G. Chistyakov.