Catherine Chamié
Catherine Chamié (13 December 1888 – 14 July 1950) was a French chemist. Along with Irène Joliot-Curie, she first measured the Half-life of radon. She also undertook extensive research on the photographic effect of groupings of atoms, an effect which bears her name, known as ''Chamié effect''. Biography Born on 13 December 1888 in Odessa, Catherine Chamié was the daughter of the Franco-Syrian notary Antoine Chamié, and his Russian wife Helene Golovkine. After completing her school education in Odessa in 1907, she enrolled at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva in the same year, where she received a doctorate degree in Electromagnetism, electrical physics in 1913. She later returned to Russia and continued her study on voltages in gas discharge tubes at the physics laboratory of the Saint Petersburg State University, University of Petrograd. During the First World War, she worked as a war nurse in the clinics set up at the University of Odessa until 1916. Af ...
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