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Gustave Bémont
Coauthor of the 1898 radium report
Who they are
Gustave Bémont was one of three authors, with Pierre and Marie Curie, of the report proposing radium as a new radioactive substance. Their 1898 account combined chemical fractionation, unusually strong radioactivity and spectral observations. The shared byline records his contribution without assigning unsupported individual shares of the laboratory work.
He restores collaborative authorship in the timeline’s early radioactivity milestone.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the report proposing radium, alongside Pierre and Marie Curie.Source ↗
Selected works
Academic paper · 1898
On a New, Strongly Radio-active Substance Contained in Pitchblende
Pierre and Marie Curie with Gustave Bémont report a strongly radioactive fraction of pitchblende and propose radium as a new element. The report distinguishes chemical separation and Demarçay’s spectral evidence from isolation of a pure substance.
Report of December 26, 1898; Alfred Romer’s 1970 English translation hosted by AIP.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Entire short translated report read; original French facsimile was not compared. Translation is from Romer’s 1970 edition. Reused prior inspected evidence: Entire short translated report read; original French facsimile was not compared. Translation is from Romer’s 1970 edition.
In the timeline
- Dec 26, 1898The Curies and Bémont report evidence for radium
Documented connections
Documented · co authored with
Marie Curie and Gustave Bémont are named co-authors of the same radium report, alongside Pierre Curie.
This does not assign individual shares of experimental work or imply that the sample was pure radium.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources
- On a New, Strongly Radio-active Substance Contained in Pitchblende ↗Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences; translation hosted by American Institute of Physics