Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Perey was born on October 19, 1909. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Marguerite Perey
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. She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1946 with a Doctorate of Physics; her thesis was about her recently discovered element 87. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie.