Perey, Marguerite,
Marguerite Perey papers, 1929-1975.
Collection includes papers produced during Perey's research at Marie Curie's laboratory, her education, and her work as teacher and laboratory director. Administrative and scientific correspondence, correspondence with the media and general public, records of the CNRS commission on particle physics, documentation on spectroscopy, and press clippings and photographs collected by her collaborators. Bulk of the collection is from the years 1949-1960. Subjects addressed include radioactivity and spectroscopy. Document types include laboratory notebooks, course materials, and publications reflecting her work as a professor teaching nuclear chemistry and as laboratory director.
Discovered and isolated element 87, studying its properties and naming it francium in 1939. Started as a personal assistant to Marie Curie at the Institut du Radium, Paris, becoming a radiochemist 1934-1946. She spent three years (1946-1949) as Maitre de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Institut du Radium. In 1949 she was appointed to the faculty at the Universit ̌de Strasbourg and founded a laboratory that in 1958 became the Laboratory of Nuclear Chemistry in the Center for Nuclear Research, for which she served as director.
Perey, Marguerite
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France).
Nuclear chemistry.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- France.
Radioactivity -- History.
Spectroscopy -- History.
Laboratory notes. aat aat
Photographs. aat
Publications. aat
AIP-ICOS
Universit ̌Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg. Mission culture scientifique et technique. 7, rue de l'Universit,̌ 67000 Strasbourg, France.