Jean Baptiste Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
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French physicist who turned Einstein's Brownian motion theory into hard proof that atoms actually exist. Won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for making the invisible visible through suspended particles in liquid.
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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.
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