Jean Baptiste Perrin was a renowned French physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926. He began his career as an assistant in physics, and after the completion of his doctorate, got the opportunity to teach as a lecturer and then professor. Among his students was well-known physicist Pierre Victor Auger. As part of his research, he was able to prove several scientific theories including the Brownian motion and atomic nature of matter. He also determined the Avogadro’s number and electric charge of cathode rays through his studies. He was regarded by many as the founding father of the National Centre for Scientific Research. Jean Baptiste Perrin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for ‘his work on the discontinuous structure of matter and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium’. He had also written and published several books and dissertation papers based on the research work he conducted.
