Raymond would have started earning his living at 14 years old, as most boys of his age did, if his teacher had not noticed his great academic potential and convinced his mother to let him carry on his studies.

Having returned to the laboratory, and having obtained a grant from the Caisse Nationale des Sciences, he published his first article on the ions produced in air by Polonium alpha rays.

The members of the jury were André Debierne (who discovered Actinium and who succeeded Madame Curie as head of the Laboratory) and also Jean Perrin, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.

Raymond dedicated his PhD to Madame Curie whom he highly admired and respected and to his mother to whom he was deeply grateful for the great sacrifices she had made in order for him to pursue his higher education.

[5] In 1937 Jean Perrin founded the Palais de la Découverte and entrusted Raymond with the installation of the exhibition rooms devoted to natural and artificial radioactivity.

In 1948 he directed the practical work of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) for the training of engineers specialising in radioactivity.

In 1935, Raymond married Jeannine Bret, an excellent pianist and daughter of a machinery manufacturer in Verneuil sur Avre (Normandy).

On his way to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife in Stockholm, Frédéric Joliot-Curie stopped over to be the witness at the wedding of his friend and colleague Raymond.