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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1920s (54) 1926 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1870s (42) 1870 (3) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) France (55) Lille (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1940s (35) 1942 (3) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Northeastern states (77) New York (38) New York City (24) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) J (95) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) P (41) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 57 (32) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) France (60) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) France (32) Paris (23) Sorbonne University (7) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) France (92) Paris (73) École Normale Supérieure (20) Alumni (13) University of Paris (50) Alumni (42) Long-term academic staff (21) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, western (50) France (23) Paris (21) Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (2) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) Academy of Sciences of Turin (33) E-P (571) F (89) French Academy of Sciences (89) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (111) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Commander of the Legion of Honour (18) Commander of the Order of Leopold II (1) K-L (297) L (183) La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences (4) M-N (333) M (172) Matteucci Medal (29) complete name: Jean Baptiste Perrin nobel prize: physics award year: 1926 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Jean-Baptiste family name: Perrin occupation: composer occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher occupation: theoretical physicist work location: École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 5th arrondissement of Paris, France description: 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 (sedimentation equilibrium). For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1926/summary/> date birth: 1870 date death: 1942 usual name: Jean Perrin
