"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"

Jean Baptiste Perrin

France
born 1870, died 1942
CA - French Government-in-Exile, New York, New York, USA
AA - Sorbonne (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), Paris, France
WA - Sorbonne (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne)

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1926
• "New Experiments on the Kathode Rays" (Perrin 1895) 
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
• History of the CNRS