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Irène Joliot-Curie ( French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ⓘ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
Irène Curie, born in Paris, September 12, 1897, was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, and since 1926 the wife of Frédéric Joliot. After having started her studies at the Faculty of Science in Paris, she served as a nurse radiographer during the First World War.
The radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie.
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie were French physical chemists, husband and wife, who were jointly awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of new radioactive isotopes prepared artificially. They were the son-in-law and daughter of Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie.
Sep 12, 2011 · Irène Joliot-Curie. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935. Born: 12 September 1897, Paris, France. Died: 17 March 1956, Paris, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: Institut du Radium, Paris, France. Prize motivation: “in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements” Prize share: 1/2. Life.
Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot, a wife-and-husband team, received a Nobel Prize for their artificial creation of radioactive isotopes. With their discovery of “artificial” or “induced” radioactivity, radioactive atoms could be prepared relatively inexpensively, a boon to the progress of nuclear physics and medicine.
Marie Curie (born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire—died July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France) was a Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot were nominated for the physics Nobel Prize in 1934, but passed over that year, and in 1935 they maintained the brilliant family tradition being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry - the third Nobel Prize for the Curie family - "for the synthesis of new radioactive elements".
Irene Joliot-Curie - Biography, Facts and Pictures. Lived 1897 – 1956. Irène Joliot-Curie discovered how to synthesize ‘designer’ radioactive elements in the laboratory. Such elements are now used in tens of millions of medical procedures every year. Their use has saved millions of lives.
As Commissioner for Atomic Energy for six years, Joliot-Curie took part in its creation and in the construction of the first French atomic pile in 1948. She was involved in the inauguration of the large center for nuclear physics at Orsay, for which she worked out the plans.
