biography
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Joliot-Curie, Irène
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née Curie
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pronunciation:
[zholioh kyooree]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1897–1956)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Paris, France, the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. She studied at the Collège Sévigné, and worked as her mother's assistant at the Institut du Radium in Paris. There she met her future husband Frédéric Joliot, with whom she discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934, a major step on the road to nuclear energy. A strong Socialist and an outspoken anti-Fascist, she was under-secretary of state for scientific research in the Popular Front government (1936). She became director of the Institut du Radium (1946–50), and shared with her husband the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. |
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