List of Famous people with last name Perey

Marguerite Perey

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First Name Marguerite

Last Name Perey

Born on October 19, 1909

Died on May 13, 1975 (aged 65)

Born in France, Île-de-France

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. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975.

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