Perey was announced as one of 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower
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Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1946 with a Doctorate of Physics; her thesis was about her recently discovered element 87. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an h…
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science · French physicist (1909–1975) · physicist · chemist · university teacher · also Marguerite Perey, Perey
Born 19 October 1909 · Died 13 May 1975 · Q241822
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2017· 1 entry
Hackaday: Marguerite Perey: When The Lab Assistant Gets The Credit
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1975· 1 entry
Died 1975-05-13.
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the National Order of Merit (1974).
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1964· 1 entry
Won Lavoisier Medal (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Published “Optical-Model Analysis of Proton Elastic Scattering in the Range of 9 to 22 MeV” in Physical Review — cited 1,398 times.
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1962· 2 entries
Was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie
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Making her the first woman elected to the Institut de France
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms (1960).
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Awarded Leconte Prize (1960).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Became the Laboratory of Nuclear Chemistry in the Center for Nuclear Research, for which she served as director
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1949· 1 entry
Where she developed the university's radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry program and continued her work on francium
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1946· 1 entry
With a Doctorate of Physics; her thesis was about her recently discovered element 87
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1939· 1 entry
Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium
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1935· 1 entry
Perey read a paper by American scientists claiming to have discovered a type of radiation called beta particles being emitted by actinium and was skeptical because the reported energy of the beta particles didn't seem
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1929· 1 entry
At the age of 19, Perey interviewed for a role as a personal assistant (technician) to Marie Curie at Curie's Radium Institute in Paris, France, and was hired
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1909· 2 entries
Born 1909-10-19.
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In Villemomble, France, just outside Paris where the Curie's Radium Institute was located
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