Jean Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin
Perrin in 1926
Born(1870-09-30)30 September 1870
Died17 April 1942(1942-04-17) (aged 71)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
University of Paris
Known forNature of cathode rays
Brownian motion
Avogadro constant
Sedimentation equilibrium
Perrin friction factors
ChildrenFrancis Perrin
AwardsMatteucci Medal (1911)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1918)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1926)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsÉcole Normale Supérieure
University of Paris
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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. For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.[2]

  1. ^ Townsend, J. S. (1943). "Jean Baptiste Perrin. 1870-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (12): 301–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0004. S2CID 123521634.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2022.