Irène Joliot-Curie

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. The couple also discovered positron emission during their research. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family's legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.

She and her mother Marie Skłodowska-Curie form the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. Furthermore, Pierre and Irène Curie form the only father-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes, compared to six father-son pairs who have won Nobel Prizes.

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. 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) created by de Gaulle and the Provisional Government of the French Republic. She died in Paris on 17 March 1956 from acute leukemia linked to her exposure to polonium and X-rays.

Awards: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Matteucci Medal, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 72 scientist women names on the Eiffel tower Education: Science Faculty of Paris, Collège Sévigné, University of Paris

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