Jean-Baptiste Perrin is remembered in science for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Perrin as French physicist (1870–1942).
Jean-Baptiste Perrin was born in 1870. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at University of Paris and École Normale Supérieure.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Jean-Baptiste Perrin is described as physicist, university teacher and composer.
His affiliations include École Normale Supérieure and University of Paris.
Among his principal works are Les Atomes and Œuvres scientifiques de Jean Perrin. Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are physics and physical science.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1926) and Commander of the Legion of Honour (1926).
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1942, at 72. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1926
- Commander of the Legion of Honour — 1926
- Notable work: Les Atomes
- Notable work: Œuvres scientifiques de Jean Perrin
- Affiliated with École Normale Supérieure and University of Paris
- Educated at University of Paris, École Normale Supérieure and Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Worked as physicist, university teacher and composer
