Jean Baptiste Perrin Summary

Jean Baptiste Perrin 1870-1942 French physicist awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on Brownian motion. In 1895 he settled the cathode ray particle-wave debate by demonstrating that c... Read more

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,... Read more

The contribution made by French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin to the study of atomic physics was of the most fundamental kind: he helped to prove that atoms and molecules exist. This achievement, whi... Read more