Nobel Prize in Physics 1926

Jean Baptiste Perrin

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"

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