Jean Baptiste Perrin
French physicist
Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS 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. Wikipedia
Born: September 30, 1870, Lille, France
Died: April 17, 1942 (age 71 years), The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Spouse: Henriette Perrin-Duportal (m. 1897–1938)
Education: University of Paris, École normale supérieure, and Janson de Sailly School
Academic advisor: Jules Violle
Notable students: Pierre Victor Auger, Horia Hulubei, and Yvette Cauchois
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