Marguerite-Catherine Perey, discoverer of the chemical element francium

Marguerite-Catherine Perey, discoverer of the chemical element Francium, at the age of 30, a result comparable to her mentor, Marie Curie. She did not get a Nobel Prize, but she became the first female member of the Académie des Sciences, something that not even Marie Curie herself did.

 
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