Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
In addition to this, there are plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: https://www.compoundchem.com/category/women-in-chemistry/
I wonder why Marguerite Perey's discovery wasn't name after her... 🤔
@grb090423 @compoundchem one quick Wikipedia search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium#Perey's_analysis
Perey named the new isotope actinium-K [...] and in 1946, she proposed the name catium (Cm) for her newly discovered element [...]. Irène Joliot-Curie, one of Perey's supervisors, opposed the name due to its connotation of cat rather than cation; furthermore, the symbol coincided with that which had since been assigned to curium. Perey then suggested francium, after France.
Thank you for this. 👍
It rings a bell, think I might've read it a long time ago.
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