Perey

1. French physicist who discovered the element francium in 1939.

Example Sentences

The French chemist Marguerite Perey, a protégée of Marie Curie, discovered an element of her own, in 1939.

From The New Yorker

Perey, being French, decided to call it francium instead.

From The New Yorker

Marguerite Perey is an exception: the French physicist is considered the sole discoverer of element 87, francium, in 193912.

From Nature

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

Because neither could agree about whom Perey was working for at the time, each was unable to claim a role in the discovery.

From Nature