| Jean Perrin  AKA Jean Baptiste Perrin
Born: 30-Sep-1870
Birthplace: Lille, France
Died: 17-Apr-1942
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Panthéon, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Verified atomic nature of matter Military service: French Army (Engineering Corps, WWI) Determined that cathode rays are negatively charged. Later he studied Brownian motion, verifying Albert Einstein's hypothesis that colloidal matter should obey the laws of gases. This confirmed other calculations of Avogodro's Number and verified the atomic nature of matter. In 1930, with Jewish banker Baron Edmond de Rothschild as benefactor, Perrin was a founder of the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC). He left his position at the Sorbonne when the Germans invaded France, fleeing to the United States. He died in New York City in 1942. Father: (French Army officer, d. Franco-Prussian War)
Son: Francis Perrin (physicist)
High School: Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, Paris
University: École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Professor: Physical Chemistry, Sorbonne (1910-40)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1926
Matteucci Medal 1911
Royal Society
Author of books:
Les Atomes (1913, physics)
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