Picture of Brownian Motion
from: Jean Perrin: Atoms, Dresden 1914
In 1908, the French physicist Jean Perrin (1870 –1940) starts experimentally examining the law of Brownian Motion recognized by Einstein. The experiments impressively confirm the atomic structure of matter and lead to the final breakthrough of atomism in physics.
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