Marguerite Perey

Marguerite Perey
Born	19 October 1909(1909-10-19) Villemomble, France (near Paris)
Died	13 May 1975(1975-05-13) (aged 65)
Fields	Physics
Known for	Francium discovery

Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. She was a student of Marie Curie. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences.

Publications

• "Sur un element 87, dérivé de l'actinium," Comptes-rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, 208: 97 (1939).
• "Francium: élément 87," Bulletin de la Société chimique de France, 18: 779 (1951).
• "On the Descendants of Actinium K: 87Ac223," Journal de Physique et le Radium, 17: 545 (1956).

Positions

• 1929-34 Personal assistant (preparateur) to Marie Curie, Institut du Radium.
• 1934-46 Radiochemist, Institut du Radium.
• 1946-49 Maitre de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut du Radium.
• 1949- Professeur titulaire de la Chaire de Chimie Nucleaire, Universite de Strasbourg.

Education

• Diplôme d'État de chimiste, École d'enseignement technique féminine, 1929.
• Doctorat des Sciences, Sorbonne 1946.

Honors

• Officier of the Légion d'Honneur 1960
• Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris 1960
• Elected correspondante of the Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1962. First woman to be elected to the Académie since its founding in 1666.
• Lavoisier Prize of the Académie des Sciences 1964
• Silver Medal of the Société Chimique de France 1964
• Commandeur of the Ordre National du Mérite 1974

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Name	Perey, Marguerite Catherine
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Date of birth	19 October 1909
Place of birth	Villemomble, France (near Paris)
Date of death	13 May 1975
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