Debierne

Scientific  

/ dəb-yĕrn′ /

1. French chemist who discovered actinium in 1900. In 1910 he collaborated with Marie Curie to isolate pure radium.

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Example Sentences

Perey joined Marie Curie’s institute in Paris at the age of 19 as a lab technician, under the direction of Irène Joliot-Curie and André Debierne.

From Nature

Here were Barelle, Meunier, Gagnié, a former cook at the Tower, Debièrne the commissary who never failed to bring Louis Charles a toy whenever he visited him, and a host of others whom he knew but slightly.

From Project Gutenberg

Municipal Debièrne the toy-man, was responsible for this.

From Project Gutenberg

Long and arduous had been his discussions, quiet and skilful his manipulations of the impressionable Gomin, till at length, inspired both by Debièrne's influence and his own very real sympathy for his pathetic little charge, he yielded.

From Project Gutenberg

Debièrne and Meunier also stepped up and began to turn over the freshly ironed linen.

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