The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926
Awarded on: 1926-11-11
"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"
Affiliations:
- Sorbonne University – Paris, France
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Born: 1870-09-30 in Lille, France
Gender: male
Field: French physicist (1870–1942)
Biography
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 achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.