Irène Joliot-Curie
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Irène Joliot-Curie 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 a
Joliot-Curie in 1935
Irène (left), her mother and her sister Ève Curie
Irène and Marie Curie in 1925
Curie, c. 1920s
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
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Hélène Langevin-Joliot is a French nuclear physicist known for her research on nuclear reactions in French laboratories and for being the granddaughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and t
Irène Joliot-Curie
…a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research under the Popular Front in 1936. Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also scientists. In 1945, she was one of the six commissioners of the new French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA…
Langevin-Joliot in 2012