Irène Joliot-Curie
Chemist, Academic
1897 – 1956
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Who was Irène Joliot-Curie?
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date. Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also esteemed scientists.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1897
Paris - Also known as
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie
(1926/10/09 - )
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- University of Paris
- Lived in
- France
- Paris
- Died
- Mar 17, 1956
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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