Jean Baptiste Perrin
Physicist, Academic
1870 – 1942
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Who was Jean Baptiste Perrin?
Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926.
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- Born
- Sep 30, 1870
Lille - Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Lived in
- France
- Died
- Apr 17, 1942
New York City - Resting place
- Panthéon, Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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