French nuclear chemist Marguerite Perey.
Marguerite Perey. Historical portrait of the French nuclear chemist Marguerite Perey, 1909 - 75. In 1962 Perey joined Marie Curie's staff at the Radium Institute Paris, France. In 1929, as a technician investigating radioactive decay, she discovered a chemical element she named francium, a discovery that had eluded many other researchers. Francium is very rare and is now made artificially by atomic bombardment. In 1962 Perey became the first woman member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France.
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