PHYSICIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Perey has received more than 152,969 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Marguerite Perey is the 349th most popular physicist (down from 316th in 2019), the 1,793rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,633rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marguerite Perey ranks 349 out of 851. Before her are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, Walter A. Shewhart, Leopold Infeld, and William Sturgeon. After her are Moritz von Jacobi, Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, Heinrich Geißler, Galileo Ferraris, and Auguste Bravais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Marguerite Perey ranks 67. Before her are Clement Greenberg, Golo Mann, Mikhail Mil, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Robert Ryan, and Lennart Bernadotte. After her are Robert Brasillach, Werner Naumann, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Gunnar Björnstrand, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, and Teiichi Matsumaru. Among people deceased in 1975, Marguerite Perey ranks 51. Before her are Carlo Levi, Thornton Wilder, Rex Stout, Al Lettieri, Guy Mollet, and Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud. After her are Luigi Dallapiccola, Avery Brundage, Henry Calvin, Lyubov Orlova, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Elijah Muhammad.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marguerite Perey ranks 1,793 out of 6,770. Before her are Charles Huntziger (1880), Jules Dupré (1811), Maurice Sarrail (1856), John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374), Raël (1946), and Felice Borel (1914). After her are Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840), Heinz Harmel (1906), Michel Debré (1912), Stanislas de Guaita (1861), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), and Jean-Andoche Junot (1771).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Marguerite Perey ranks 39. Before her are Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733). After her are Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), and Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700).

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