Everything about Jean Perrin totally explained
Jean Baptiste Perrin (
September 30,
1870 –
April 17,
1942) was a French
physicist and
Nobel laureate. He was born in
Lille,
France where he attended the
École Normale Supérieure. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of
cathode rays and
X-rays. He was awarded the degree of
docteur ès sciences (PhD) in 1897. In the same year he was appointed as a lecturer in
physical chemistry at the
Sorbonne,
Paris. He became a professor at the University in 1910, holding this post until the
German occupation of France during World War II.
In 1895, Jean Perrin showed that cathode rays were made of corpuscles with negative electric charge. He computed
Avogadro's number through several methods. He explained
solar energy by the
thermonuclear reactions of
hydrogen.
After
Albert Einstein published (1905) his theoretical explanation of
Brownian motion in terms of
atoms, Perrin did the experimental work to test Einstein's predictions, thereby settling the century-long dispute about
John Dalton's
atomic theory.
Jean Perrin received the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of
sedimentation equilibrium.
Perrin was the author of a number of books and dissertations. Most notable of his publications were: "Rayons cathodiques et rayons X" ; "Les Principes"; "Electrisation de contact"; "Réalité moléculaire"; "Matière et Lumière"; "Lumière et Reaction chimique".
Perrin was also the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Joule Prize of the Royal Society in 1896 and the La Caze Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences. He was twice appointed a member of the
Solvay Committee at Brussels in 1911 and in 1921. He also held memberships with the
Royal Society of London and with the Academies of Sciences of Belgium, Sweden, Turin, Prague, Romania and China. He became a Commander of the
Legion of Honour in 1926 and was made Commander of the
Order of Léopold (Belgium).
In 1927, he jointly founded the
Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique.
Perrin was an officer in the engineer corps during
World War II. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, he escaped to the U.S.A. where he died in
New York City. After the War, in 1948, his remains were transported back to France by the battleship Jeanne d'Arc and buried in the
Panthéon.
One of his students was
Pierre Victor Auger. Perrin was the father of
Francis Perrin, also a physicist.
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