Fragile objects book subtitle soft matter hard science and the thrill of discovery authors pierre gilles de gennes jacques badoz translated by reisinger a copyright 1996 publisher copernicus copyright holder springer verlag new york inc ebook isbn 978 1 4612 2410 5 doi 101007 978 1 4612 2410 5 softcover isbn 978 1 4612 7528 2 edition number 1 number of pages. Fragile objects soft matter hard science and the thrill of discovery gennes pierre gilles de badoz jacques reisinger axel 9781461275282 amazoncom books. Fragile objects soft matter hard science and the thrill of discovery authors pierre gilles de gennes jacques badoz translated by axel reisinger edition illustrated publisher springer. Fragile objects soft matter hard science and the thrill of discovery. Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals emulsions and colloids polymers and complex molecules these materials called soft matter matiere fragile in french have neither the rigid structure and crystalline symmetry of a solid nor the uniformity and disorder of a fluid or a gas