Emit Her a Pure Energetic Ray
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Emit Her a Pure Energetic Ray is an anagram of Marguerite Catherine Perey.
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975.
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It was first reported on May 13, 2020 by this author.
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Marguerite Catherine Perey: discovered the extremely radioactive element Francium; championed radiation safety; died of bone cancer.
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- Marguerite Perey @ Wikipedia