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Jean Baptiste Perrin

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Jean Baptiste Perrin (September 30, 1870 - April 17, 1942) recieved the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium.