Marguerite Catherine Perey

Pays/Ville

France

Villemomble, Paris, Louveciennes

Details Personnels:

My father died, when I was really young, so we could afford a education as doctor(which was my dream job at that time). But I was able to study physics and got a job as a lab assistant in Marie Curie's laboratory. On my first day in the lab I met Marie Curie, but I didn't know her and so I thought she was the lab's secretary. After this incident, I thought would have to leave after three months, but instead Marie Curie incouraged and help me.

Date de Naissance:

1909

Date de Mort:

May 14, 1975

Sexe:

Female

En Cherchant:

I worked with Marie Curie in her laboratory at the Radium Institute in Paris.

Metier:

Physicist

Interets/Loisirs:

• As a child, I was interested in science and wanted to become a doctor.
• Fifteen years I fought my cancer, until I died in 1975.

Accomplissements:

• I discovered the 87th element in the periodic table, francium, in 1939.
• I also discovered the sequence of events that lead to the process known as the actinium radioactive decay series.
• I was the first woman to be admitted to the French Academy of Science in 1962.
• I worked with Marie Curie at Radium Institude in Paris from 1929 to 1939.
• I also worked with the National Center for Scientific Research from 1940 to 1949
• I became a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Strassbourg in 1949.

• I later became director of Strassbourg's Nuclear Research Center and hold that post for the rest of my life.

Education:

• I was a lab assistance.

Amis:

• Marie Curie

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

• Women were admitted into the French Academy of Sciences.
• accomplishments in Chemistry

Resources:

Marguerite Perey. (Online Image) Available <http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/fall2004/images/photo2a.jpg>. 4 Jul. 2008.

"Marguerite Perey." Notable Women Scientists. Gale Group, 2000. Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.

"Perey, Marguerite." Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary.  Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1995. 

Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.