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   Jean Baptiste Perrin. Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS [1] (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.

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3. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › physicsJean Baptiste Perrin – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

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   Jean Baptiste Perrin was born in Lille, September 30, 1870, where he was educated at the École Normal Supérieure, becoming an assistant in physics during 1894-1897, when he began his researches on cathode rays and X-rays. He received the degree of “docteur ès sciences” in 1897 for a thesis on cathode and Röntgen rays and was appointed ...

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   Feb 16, 2004 · Learn how French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin used Brownian motion to estimate Avogadro's number, the number of particles in a mole, in 1909. Find out how this constant is measured and why it is important for chemistry and physics.

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   Who was Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS?

   • 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.

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   • Jean Perrin was the father of Francis Perrin, also a physicist. Perrin was an atheist and a socialist. He was an officer in the engineer corps during World War I . After the death of Perrin's wife Henriette in 1938, Nine Choucroun (1896–1978), founder of the Nine Choucroun Prize, became Perrin's partner.

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   How did Jean Perrin die?

   • A few weeks later, Perrin took ill, and ten days later he died at the age of seventy-one at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Three years after the defeat of Germany and the end of the war, diplomats and scientists in New York paid homage to Jean Perrin at ceremonies held at the Universal Funeral Chapel.

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   • The situation became particularly grim in the summer of 1940, when German troops swept into Paris. Perrin fled the city and took up residence in Lyon as a refugee. In December 1941 he moved to the United States, where he lived with his son, Francis Perrin, a visiting professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University.

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   May 18, 2018 · Learn about the French physicist who helped to prove the existence of atoms and molecules using Brownian motion. Find out his biography, achievements, and Nobel Prize in physics.

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   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”.

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9. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › physicsJean Baptiste Perrin – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org

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   Jean Baptiste Perrin Nobel Lecture . Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1926. Discontinuous Structure of Matter. Since I have the great honour to have to summarize here the work which has enabled me to receive the high international distinction awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, I shall speak of the “discontinuous structure of matter”.

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    Jean Baptiste Perrin 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 in Physics in 1926.