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Perrin

[ pe-ran ]

noun

  1. Jean Bap·tiste [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest], 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.


Perrin

/ ɛɛ̃ /

noun

  1. PerrinJean Baptiste18701942MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist). 1870–1942, French physicist. His researches on the distribution and diffusion of particles in colloids (1911) gave evidence for the physical reality of molecules, confirmed the explanation of Brownian movement in terms of kinetic theory, and determined the magnitude of the Avogadro constant. He also studied cathode rays: Nobel prize for physics 1926
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Getty curator Scott Allan worked with Paul Perrin, director of collections at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, where the exhibition was seen last fall, and Gloria Groom, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it concludes its international tour beginning in June.

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Finally, two irreplaceable artistic leaders bade farewell to their longtime posts at companies they co-founded: Sachs at the Fountain Theatre and John Perrin Flynn at Rogue Machine Theatre.

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“Part and parcel of running a theater in Los Angeles is waking up two to four times a year and not knowing if you’re going to be in business the next week,” John Perrin Flynn reflected after announcing his retirement as producing artistic director of Rogue Machine Theatre.

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These qualities are magnified in Rogue Machine’s production, directed with exquisite sensitivity by founding artistic director John Perrin Flynn.

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Said restrictions, per the motion, were put forth in an “expansive” NDA that stated that the parties could not make any statements or take actions that would “disparage, defame, or compromise the goodwill, name, brand or reputation of Miraval Provence or any of its affiliated or direct and indirect shareholders,” including Jolie, Pitt, Pitt’s business partner and good friend Marc Perrin, and Familles Perrin SAS.

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