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Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926, ‘for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter’?

  1. ACharles Wilson
  2. BMurray Gell-Mann
  3. CJean Baptiste PerrinCorrect answer
  4. DOwen Willans Richardson
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C. Jean Baptiste Perrin

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Jean Baptiste Perrin won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, confirming the atomic nature of matter.

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