Nathalie Demassieux, was a chemist and French academic who specialized in mineral chemistry.
18 Facts About Nathalie Demassieux
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Nathalie Demassieux was, after Irene Joliot-Curie and Pauline Ramart, the third woman to obtain a position as a lecturer in a French university.
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Nathalie Demassieux's parents were Wladimir Filatoff, a Russian minor nobleman, and Marine Guelariev, whose father was Polish and whose mother, Adeline Louvier de Balmont, was French.
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Nathalie Demassieux Filatoff emigrated to France in 1901 with her brother, Vsevolod Filatoff.
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Nathalie Demassieux Filatoff continued her studies at the Sorbonne, where, she obtained: in 1909 the certificate of higher studies in mineralogy, in 1910 the certificate of higher studies in preparatory mathematics, and in 1912 the certificate of higher studies in general physics.
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Nathalie Demassieux changed her name to Nathalie Demassieux after marrying a professor of chemistry Louis Demassieux on 26 August 1909.
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Nathalie Demassieux's husband was killed on 24 August 1914 in front of Noers during the Battle of the Frontiers, during World War I In 1913 and 1914 her first publications appeared in the reports of the French Academy of Sciences, concerning the equilibrium between lead chloride and ammonia hydrochloride and ammonium chloride.
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From 1916 to 1919, Nathalie Demassieux was an auxiliary teacher of mineral chemistry and applied chemistry certificates.
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Nathalie Demassieux became a full assistant at the Sorbonne in 1920.
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In 1930, Nathalie Demassieux obtained a position as a lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Caen, becoming only the third woman to obtain a position as a lecturer at a French university, after the chemists Irene Joliot-Curie and Pauline Ramart.
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Nathalie Demassieux was a member of the Association for Women's Rights and of the French Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Nathalie Demassieux was active in Soroptimist France, an international network for the promotion of women's professional values.
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Nathalie Demassieux died on 19 May 1961 in Paris and is buried there in the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery.
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Nathalie Demassieux is first author of two papers that she published with him.
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Nathalie Demassieux was interested in the development of devices, and built one apparatus allowing the study of bodies by X-rays at high temperatures and another at low temperatures.
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Nathalie Demassieux directed the doctoral research of Leon Lortie, a Canadian chemist who defended his thesis on cerium in 1930.
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Nathalie Demassieux was a dedicated researcher throughout her life, directing her doctoral students and publishing more than 30 articles and papers until her death.
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Nathalie Demassieux became very attached to the Sorbonne laboratory where she spent many hours, so she bequeathed part of her estate to the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1959, and this, in turn, allowed the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris to create the Nathalie Demassieux Prize.