Perey
Americannoun
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Perey, being French, decided to call it francium instead.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019
The French chemist Marguerite Perey, a protégée of Marie Curie, discovered an element of her own, in 1939.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019
Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Perey et Maugras, Derni�res ann�es de Mme. d'Epinay.
From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Cushing, Max Pearson
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