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