Francis Perrin

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Francis Perrin (Paris, 1901 - id., 1992) was a French physicist, the son of Jean Perrin.

With Frédéric Joliot and his group, he established in 1939 the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production.^[1]

He was high-commissionner for atomic energy from 1951 to 1970.

[edit] References

• 1. ^ Perrin F. (1939). "Calcul relatif aux conditions eventuelles de transmutation en chaine de l’uranium". Comptes Rendus 208: 1394–6. 

• Dautray R. (1992). "Perrin, Francis 1901-92". Physiks World 5 (10): 50.