Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie | |
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Joliot-Curie in 1935 | |
| Born | Irène Curie 12 September 1897 |
| Died | 17 March 1956 (aged 58) Paris, French Fourth Republic |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Discovering induced radioactivity |
| Spouse |
Frédéric Joliot (m. 1926) |
| Children |
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| Parents | |
| Family | Curie |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1935) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Physics |
| Institutions | University of Paris Radium Institute |
| Thesis | Recherches sur les rayons α du polonium : oscillation de parcours, vitesse d'émission, pouvoir ionisant (1925) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Langevin |
| Doctoral students | Her children |
| Signature | |
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. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.[1]
Her mother Marie Skłodowska-Curie and she also form the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes[2] whilst Pierre and Irène Curie form the only father-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes by the same occasion, whilst there are six father-son pairs who have won Nobel Prizes by comparison.[3]
She was also one of the first three women to be a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research under the Popular Front in 1936.[4] Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also scientists.[5]
In 1945, she was one of the six commissioners of the new French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) created by de Gaulle and the Provisional Government of the French Republic. She died in Paris on 17 March 1956 from an acute leukemia linked to her exposure to polonium and X-rays.
- ^ "Nobel Prize facts: 'Family Nobel Laureates'". Nobel Foundation. 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
- ^ "Nobel Laureates Facts - Women". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ Chatterjee, Debjani. "Global Day Of Parents 2021: Parent-Child Pairs Who Won The Nobel Prize". NDTV. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Archives de l'état civil de Paris en ligne, acte de naissance no 13/2073/1897, avec mention marginale du décès. Autre mention : mariage en 1926 avec Jean Frédéric Joliot (in French) (consulté le 8 avril 2012)
- ^ Byers, Nina; Williams, Gary A. (2006). "Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Radvanyi". Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82197-5.