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Partners in life and in the lab, the Joliot-Curies were the first to discover man-made, or “artificial,” radioactivity. about SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHIES. Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot, a wife-and-husband team, received a Nobel Prize for their artificial creation of radioactive isotopes.
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sister Irène Joliot-Curie. Ève Curie (born Dec. 6, 1904, Paris, France—died Oct. 22, 2007, New York, N.Y., U.S.) French and American concert pianist, journalist, and diplomat, a daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie. She is best known for writing a biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937).
Quick Reference. (1897–1956) French physicist who, in collaboration with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–58), discovered artificial radioactivity. For this they were awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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".
She became Professor in the Faculty of Science in Paris in 1937. She was a member of the Comite National de l'Union des Femmes Francaises and of the World Peace Council. In 1938, her research on the action of neutrons on the heavy elements was an important step in the discovery of nuclear fission.
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska–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 induced radioactivity, making them the second-ever married ...
