Jean Baptiste Perrin
Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Born
September 30th, 1870
154 years ago
Died
April 17th, 1942
83 years ago — 71 years old
Category
Scientists & Innovators
Country
France
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A physicist and chemist, contributions focused on the determination of Avogadro's number and the discovery of the Brownian motion. Worked extensively on the nature of matter and the kinetic theory of gases. Received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for work on the discontinuous structure of matter. Later became a member of the French Academy of Sciences, influencing the fields of physics and physical chemistry.
Received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926
Contributed to the understanding of Brownian motion
Determined Avogadro's number
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