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Irène Joliot-Curie

* 1897 in Paris
+ 1956 in Paris


   

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist, physicist, and a politician of partly Polish ancestry,
the elder 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 in Chemistry in 1935
for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.

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