Perey was born in 1909 in Villemomble, France, just outside Paris where the Curie's Radium Institute was located. Although she hoped to study medicine, the death of her father left the family in financial difficulties.
Perey earned a … 查看更多內容

In 1935, Perey read a paper by American scientists claiming to have discovered a type of radiation called beta particles being emitted by actinium and was skeptical because the reported energy of the beta particles didn't seem to match actinium. She decided to … 查看更多內容

• "Sur un élément 87, dérivé de l'actinium," Comptes-rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, 208: 97 (1939).
• "Francium: élément 87," Bulletin de la … 查看更多內容

Under Marie Curie's guidance at the Radium Institute, Perey learned how to isolate and purify radioactive elements, focusing on the chemical element actinium (discovered in Curie's laboratory in 1899 by chemist André-Louis Debierne). Perey spent a decade … 查看更多內容

Perey received a grant to study at Paris' Sorbonne, but because she didn't have a bachelor's degree, the Sorbonne required her to take … 查看更多內容

Perey's archives with materials dating from 1929 to 1975 were left at the University of Strasbourg. They include laboratory notebooks, course materials from her work as professor of … 查看更多內容

• 1929–34: Personal assistant (preparateur) to Marie Curie, Institut du Radium.
• 1934–46: Radiochemist, Institut du Radium.
• 1946–49: Maitre de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut du Radium. 查看更多內容