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Marguerite Perey

1909 - 1975

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Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Perey is the 328th most popular physicist (up from 350th in 2019), the 1,444th most popular biography from France (up from 1,794th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marguerite Perey ranks 328 out of 851. Before her are Charles Fabry, Alexey Ekimov, John Stewart Bell, Armen Sarkissian, Ludwig Prandtl, and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier. After her are Paul-Jacques Curie, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, and Giovanni Battista Amici.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Marguerite Perey ranks 50. Before her are Jessica Tandy, Hélder Câmara, Yiannis Ritsos, László Rajk, Vicente Feola, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec. After her are Otto Kumm, Alexander Pechersky, Norberto Bobbio, Adib Shishakli, Matt Busby, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche. Among people deceased in 1975, Marguerite Perey ranks 47. Before her are Carlo Levi, Vicente Feola, Rex Stout, Bernard Herrmann, Latife Uşşaki, and Annette Kellermann. After her are Luigi Dallapiccola, William Phillips, Joseph Bech, Susan Hayward, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Ernst Hanfstaengl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marguerite Perey ranks 1,444 out of 6,770. Before her are Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Pierre Mauroy (1928), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Medardus (470), and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707). After her are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Bernard Hinault (1954), Oenomaus (-105), Jean-Claude Pascal (1927), Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), and François Pinault (1936).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Marguerite Perey ranks 36. Before her are Alain Aspect (1947), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Félix Savart (1791), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Charles Fabry (1867), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785). After her are Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Auguste Bravais (1811), Louis Poinsot (1777), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733).

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