Jean Perrin
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Jean Perrin was a French physicist who lived from 1870 to 1942 and made important contributions to understanding the nature of matter and atoms. His work provided experimental evidence for the existence of atoms and molecules, helping to establish atomic theory as a fundamental part of modern physics.
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- 1870
- Died
- 1942
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- 34
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- Mouvement brownien et réalité moléculaire
- Rayons catholdiques et rayons de Röntgen
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Jean Baptiste Perrin ( French: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɛʁɛ̃]; 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 work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.
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1870 births1942 deaths19th-century French physicists20th-century French chemists20th-century French physicistsBurials at the Panthéon, ParisCommanders of the Legion of HonourCorresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) alumniForeign members of the Royal Society