Jean-Baptiste Perrin
✶September 30, 1870
†April 17, 1942
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✶September 30, 1870
†April 17, 1942
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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 work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.
French physicist (1870–1942)
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