Nobel Prize in Physics 1926
Photo: Henri Martinie. Nobel Foundation archive
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Prize share: 1/1
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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