-college Sevigne
-faculty of science at Sorbonne but was interrupted by WW1

-1925 became Marie Curie’s assistant

– Royal Medal (The Queen’s Medal)

1) Elements are made atoms.
2) Atoms of an element are identical in size etc
3) Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed.
4) Different Atoms combine to form compounds
5) In chem reactions, atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged.

– received his early education from his father and from Quaker John Fletcher, who ran a private school at Pardshaw Hall.

– Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935