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Jean Baptiste Perrin

1870 - 1942

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Jean Baptiste Perrin (French: [ʒˈɑ̃ batˈist pɛʁˈɛ̃]; 30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French atomic physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Baptiste Perrin is the 98th most popular physicist (down from 87th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from France (up from 385th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Physicist.

Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of atomic physics. He is credited with the discovery of the neutron, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean Baptiste Perrin ranks 98 out of 851. Before him are Otto von Guericke, Carl David Anderson, Barry Barish, Ben Roy Mottelson, J. Hans D. Jensen, and Percy Williams Bridgman. After him are William Henry Bragg, Eugene Wigner, Donald A. Glaser, Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, and Peter Debye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Jean Baptiste Perrin ranks 8. Before him are Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Sophia of Prussia, Franz Lehár, and Jules Bordet. After him are Adolf Loos, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ivan Bunin, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and Albert Fish. Among people deceased in 1942, Jean Baptiste Perrin ranks 7. Before him are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, Anton Drexler, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Perrin ranks 321 out of 6,770. Before him are Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Pierre Corneille (1606), Joseph Fouché (1759), Patrick Modiano (1945), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and Mireille Mathieu (1946). After him are Jacques de Molay (1243), Richard I of Normandy (933), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Emmanuel Macron (1977), Pope Nicholas II (990), and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean Baptiste Perrin ranks 10. Before him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900). After him are François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), and Louis Néel (1904).

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