His ashes, along with those of his colleague and friend Paul Langevin, were transported to the Pantheon in Paris, following a national funeral
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Jean-Baptiste Perrin
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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science · French physicist (1870–1942) · physicist · university teacher · composer · chemist · theoretical physicist · also Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Jean Perrin, Perrin
Born 30 September 1870 · Died 17 April 1942 · Q134085
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1948· 2 entries
His remains were transported back to France by the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Reynaud Prize (1946).
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1942· 1 entry
Died 1942-04-17.
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1938· 3 entries
Won Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès (1938).
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Nine Choucroun became Perrin's partner
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Led to a change in the project, which became the Center for Metallurgical Studies under the direction of Georges Chaudron
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1936· 2 entries
Perrin, now an undersecretary for research, founded the Service Central de la Recherche Scientifique (French Central Agency for Scientific Research)
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1936–1936).
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1929· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1929–1929).
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1927· 1 entry
Perrin founded the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique together with chemist André Job and physiologist André Mayer
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1926· 5 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of Leopold II (1926).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1926).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1926).
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For this and other work on the discontinuous structure of matter, which put a definite end to the long struggle regarding the question of the physical reality of molecules
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Was made Commander of the Order of Léopold (Belgium) and of the French Legion of Honour, then Grand officier in 1937
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1919· 1 entry
Perrin proposed that nuclear reactions can provide the source of energy in stars
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1918).
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1915· 1 entry
Was appointed Deputy Chief of the Directorate of Inventions for National Defense, which aimed to coordinate French laboratories in the war effort
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1914· 1 entry
Awarded La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1914).
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1911· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1911).
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1907· 1 entry
Awarded Vallauri Prize (1907).
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1901· 1 entry
Perrin proposed a hypothesis that each atom has a positively charged nucleus, similarly to Hantaro Nagaoka later, but never developed it further
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1899· 1 entry
And Francis, born in 1901, who later became a physicist
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1897· 1 entry
Perrin married Henriette Duportal (1869–1938), the daughter of Henri Duportal, a civil engineer and ardent republican, and the granddaughter of Armand Duportal, who had been Prefect of Haute-Garonne (France)
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1896· 1 entry
And the La Caze Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
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1895· 1 entry
Perrin showed that cathode rays were of negative electric charge in nature
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-09-30.
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