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Jean-Baptiste Perrin
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Jean-Baptiste Perrin

1870 – 1942 · aged 72

French physicist (1870–1942)

Born
30 Sept 1870 · Lille
Died
17 Apr 1942 · New York City

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 83 years
  1. 30 Sept 1870BornBorn in Lille
  2. 1907AwardVallauri Prize
  3. 1911AwardMatteucci Medal
  4. 1914AwardLa Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences
  5. 1918AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  6. 1926AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
  7. 1926AwardCommander of the Order of Leopold II
  8. 1926AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  9. 1929RolePresident
  10. 1936RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
  11. 1938AwardGreat Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
  12. 17 Apr 1942DiedDied in New York City

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1870 – 1942).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad

Biography

Jean Baptiste Perrin (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɛʁɛ̃]; 30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French 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 work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.

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