French physicist born in Lille and dead in New York. His father was an officer of infantry, his mother was coming from Boulogne-sur-Mer and was related to the inventor of the marine propeller.

Admitted at Normale Supérieure, Jean Perrin (1870-1942) stays there as an assistant until 1895, then teaches at the faculty of Paris and the Sorbonne until 1940. During the First World War, he continues his researches for French Department of Defense and he is interested in the problem of the location by the sound. he returns to his scientific works and is elected in 1923 at the Academy of Science. He founds the CNRS and the Palate of Discovered in 1937. Nobel Prize of physics in 1926 for his works on the diameter of the molecules, he considered since 1920 the use of the nuclear energy. he studied the Brownian movements, the cathode rays, x-rays.

Electronics was born from the one of his experiments. He leaves to teach in the United States in 1940. In 1948, his ashes are transferred to the Pantheon. A college of the suburbs of Lille, called Lambersart, has his name.

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