Gustave Bémont

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Gustave Bémont (* 1857 ; † 1937 ) was a French chemist . He was active at the École de physique et de chimie when Marie and Pierre Curie included him in their research.

Together with Pierre and Marie Curie he wrote the communication on December 26, 1898 to the Académie des Sciences regarding the discovery of radium with the title: “Sur une nouvelle substance, fortement radioactive, contenue dans la pechblende” (“About a new, highly radioactive substance contained in the pitchblende ”).

Literature and Sources

  • Robert Guillaumont : Address on the 100th anniversary of the invention of radium, Institut de France, Académie des Sciences, November 17, 1998
  • Jean-Noël Fenwick took up the theme in the play "Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz", which was nominated eleven times for the Molière Prize, and in the script for the French film of the same name from 1997 (director: Claude Pinoteau, participants: Isabelle Huppert , Philippe Noiret and Charles Berling ).

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