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    Jean Baptiste Perrin ForMemRS (30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles...
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  • suggestion was made before the discovery of isotopes in 1912. Physicist Jean Perrin had adopted the same definition in 1909 during his experiments to determine...
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    Refined over time by scientists such as Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jean Perrin, and Linus Pauling, the study of molecules is today known as molecular...
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  • Jean Perrin (September 17, 1920 – September 24, 1989) was a Swiss composer and pianist. He composed in a neo-classical style, sometimes approaching polytonality...
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  • was the son of Physics Nobel laureate Jean Perrin and the brother-in-law of Pierre Victor Auger. Francis Perrin was born in Paris and attended École Normale...
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    1860. The name Avogadro's number was coined in 1909 by the physicist Jean Perrin, who defined it as the number of molecules in exactly 32 grams of oxygen...
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    and molecules exist and was further verified experimentally by Jean Perrin in 1908. Perrin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 "for his work...
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    following World War II pantheonized two physicists, Paul Langevin and Jean Perrin; a leader of the abolitionist movement, Victor Schœlcher; early leader...
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    1977 [PM] Jean Dausset (Professor) – 1980* [Pe.] Louis Renault (Professor) – 1907* [Li.] T.S. Eliot (Visitor) – 1948 Gabriel Lippmann Jean Perrin Alfred...
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  • Victor-Jean Perrin (7 August 1894 – 31 January 1971) was a 20th-century Bishop of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer. He was born August 7, 1894, in Segre...
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