After several weeks of painstaking search, I can now state definitely: argyrodite contains a new element, very similar to antimony and yet sharply distinguished from it, to which the name germanium shall be given.
Definition of Bergenia. 1 : a genus of perennial spring-blooming herbs (family Saxifragaceae) native to central and eastern Asia that have large thick rootstocks which produce typical colonies or clumps of plants with very thick heavy leaves.
Bergen was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Lille Mabel (nÃ©e Howell) and William Westerman. Her paternal grandfather Frank Westerman was German. In 1932, her father died of tuberculosis, when Frances was ten years old. Shortly after, her mother moved the family to Los Angeles.