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...
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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,...
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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...
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Jean Baptiste Perrin was instrumental in proving the existence of the electron and, eventually, the atom. Born in 1870, Perrin was raised by his mother, his father having died shortly after the Franco...
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Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin