Nuclear Research Centre, this cooperation leading to a joint effort including sharing of knowledge between French and Israeli scientists especially those with knowledge from the Manhattan Project. Personal life Francis Perrin married Colette Auger, the sister of the physicist Pierre Auger. Francis Perrin was the president of Union des Athées (Union of Atheists) after his resignation from the French atomic energy commission. Works Etude mathématique du mouvement brownien de rotation (thèse de doctorat) (1928)/A mathematical study of rotation brownian motion La Fluorescence des solutions, induction moléculaire, polarisation et durée d'émission, photochimie (1929)/Solutions fluorescence, molecular induction, polarisation and emission duration, photochemistry Fluorescence (1931)/Fluorescence La dynamique relativiste et l'inertie de l'énergie (1932)/Relativistic dynamics and energy inertia Théorie quantique des transferts d'activation entre molécules de même espèce. Cas des solutions fluorescentes (1932)/Quantum theory of activation transfer between molecules of same species, the case of fluorescent solutions Calcul relatif aux conditions eventuelles de transmutation en chaine de l’uranium (1939)/Calculation relative to eventual conditions of chain transmutation of uranium Traité du calcul des probabilités et de ses applications, avec Émile Borel (1939)/Work on probability calculation and its applications, with Émile Borel Valeurs internationales des sections efficaces des isotopes fissiles pour les neutrons thermiques (1955)/International values of cross sections of fissil isotopes for thermic neutrons L'Euratom (1956)/Euratom Funérailles nationales de Frédéric Joliot (1958)/National obituary of Frederic Joliot Leçon terminale, Chaire de physique atomique et moléculaire (1972)/Terminal lesson, atomic and molecular physics pulpit Écrits de Francis Perrin (1998)/Writings of Francis Perrin References External links Annotated Bibliography for Francis Perrin from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues () Biographie sur le site du Collège de France (archived 27 September 2011) 1901 births 1992 deaths French atheists French physicists École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the French Academy of Sciences People associated with CERN