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Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS (30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.
Perrin was an officer in the engineer corps during the 1914-1918 War. When the Germans invaded his country in 1940 he escaped to the U.S.A., where he died on the 17th of April, 1942. After the War, in 1948, his remains were transferred to his fatherland by the battleship Jeanne d’Arc, and buried in the Panthéon.
Jean Baptiste Perrin. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926. Born: 30 September 1870, Lille, France. Died: 17 April 1942, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Prize motivation: “for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium”
Feb 16, 2004 · The term “Avogadro’s number” was first used by French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin. In 1909 Perrin reported an estimate of Avogadro’s number based on his work on Brownian motion—the random...
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a renowned French physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926. This biography of Perrin provides detailed information about his childhood, life, research, achievements and timeline.
May 18, 2018 · French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942) helped to prove that atoms and molecules exist, an achievement that earned him the 1926 Nobel Prize in physics. Jean Baptiste Perrin was born in Lille, France, on September 30, 1870, and raised, along with two sisters, by his widowed mother.
Quick Reference. (1870–1942) French physicist. Perrin was born in Lille, France, the son of an army officer. He was educated at the Ecole Normale, where he received his doctorate in 1897. He was appointed to the Sorbonne where he was made professor of physical chemistry in 1910.
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