Irène Joliot-Curie

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Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. The couple also discovered positron emission during their research. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the prize, adding to the Curie family's unbeaten legacy of four Nobel Prizes. The eldest child of scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, Irène grew up showing talent in mathematics and received a rigorous education from her mother and other prominent French scholars as part of a private cooperative of students. She served as a nurse radiographer at battlefield hospitals during World War I, supervising mobile X-ray units and teaching doctors how to locate shrapnel in wounds using radiology. In 1918, she joined her mother at the Radium Institute in Paris, conducting research on the alpha decay of polonium...

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