Francis Perrin

Born August 17 1901, Paris. Died July 4 1992.
Son of Jean Perrin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.

Education and professional career

Secondary education in Paris (École Alsacienne, then Lycée Henri IV)
1918-1922 : Student at the École Normale Supérieure
1920 : Licencié in physical sciences and mathematics
1922 : Agrégé in physical sciences
1924-1932 : Assistant at the Paris Faculty of Science
1928 : Doctor of Mathematical Sciences
1929 : Doctor of Physical Sciences
1933 : Lecturer at the Sorbonne (physical theories)
1935 : Appointed professor without a chair
1933 : Member of the ^7thInternational Council of Physics Solvay
September 1939 to July 1940 : Mobilized (DCA lieutenant)
1941-1943 : Visiting Professor at Columbia University (New York)
1944-1945 : Delegate of the Free French of the USA to the Provisional Consultative Assembly (Algiers then Paris)
1946-1972 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Atomic and Molecular Physics
1945 to 1950 : Member of the Atomic Energy Commission Committee
1951 to 1970 : High Commissioner for Atomic Energy
1951-1974 : Member of the ^8thInternational Council of Solvay Physics, then from 1951 to 1974 on its permanent committee
1958 : Chairman of the^2ndUnited Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva
1960-1974 : Member of CERN's Scientific Directives Committee

1933 : Secretary of the Société Française de Physique
1953-1992 : Member of the Institut (Académie des Sciences)
1954 : Corresponding member of the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences, the Madrid Academy of Sciences and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
1958-1992 : Member of the French Academy of Agriculture
1972 : Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts