Irene curie joliot biography of rory

Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Date of Birth: 12.09.1897 Country: France

Content:

1. Irene Joliot-Curie: The Legacy of a Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist
2. Education and Early Influences
3. Nuclear Research and the Discovery of Artificial Radioactivity
4. The Discovery of Artificial Elements and the Nobel Prize
5. Political Activism and the War Years

Irene Joliot-Curie: The Legacy of a Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist

A Daughter of Science

Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris on September 12, 1897, the eldest of two daughters of Pierre Curie and Marie (Skłodowska) Curie.

Marie Curie had discovered radium just a year before Irène's birth. Around the same time, Irène's paternal grandfather, Eugène Curie, moved in with the family. Eugène Curie, a doctor by profession, had volunteered his services to the revolutionaries during the 1848 uprising and had worked with the Paris Commune in 1871.

Eugène Curie became Irène's constant companion while her mother w