Marguerite Perey
Physicist, Academic
1909 – 1975
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Who was Marguerite Perey?
Marguerite Catherine Perey 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, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975.
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