Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

General Knowledge

Question:

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

Options:

Charles Wilson

Murray Gell-Mann

Jean Baptiste Perrin

Owen Willans Richardson

Correct Answer:

Jean Baptiste Perrin

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Jean Baptiste Perrin

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin. He received the prize "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium". His experiments on Brownian motion provided strong evidence for the existence of atoms.