#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
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Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to CarveHerName • • •I’m LOVING your toots! Thank you for making me discover yet another inspiring woman. It’s incredible I never heard of Marguerite Perey.
And totally unrelated, but THANK YOU for using the correct name of Maria Skłodowska-Curie (my pet peeve is that over here in France her name is always spoken/written as “Marie Curie” thus erasing her origin and identity)
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lizzzzard
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in reply to lizzzzard • • •@lizzard it was her French husband’s last name. What irks me is that her first name is always written as “Marie” (French translation) while it was actually “Maria”. If people here in Paris started calling me Helene I would lose it LOL
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lizzzzard
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@_elena huh. Definitely not how it would be done today... And I agree, having your name and its pronunciation changed somehow feels quite uncomfortable.
Was that maybe something that was handled differently back then, or did she maybe use "Marie" herself in order to avoid racism/prejudice?
Mr. Teatime
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@_elena
I know that France is/was pretty "self-assured" about changing names (In early 20th century, immigrants were handed a "proper French" first name when they received citizenship), but I thought until now that Maria *did* assume Pierre Curie's last name when she married him.
...so I just looked her up on Wikipedia, and it turns out she did sign her letters with both surnames, which concludes the matter. "Skłodowska Curie" it is.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_…
(see also note 6)
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Polish and French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
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