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Jean Baptiste Perrin
Full Name of the recipient | Jean Baptiste Perrin |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1926 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Sorbonne University, Paris, France |
Place of Birth | Lille, France FRA |
Date of Birth | 30 September 1870 |
Age at the time of Award | 55 years |
Place of Death | New York, NY, United States USA |
Date of Death | 17 April 1942 |