Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956

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Irène Joliot-Curie was a French scientist, 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 couple (after her parents) to win the Nobel Prize, while adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.

She was 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 prominent 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 an acute leukemia linked to her exposure to polonium and X-rays.

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referencedIn Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Gentner, 1971 November 15. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Meloney, William Brown, 1905-1971. Curie papers, 1920-1943. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
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referencedIn Guide to the Edward K. Barsky Photograph Collection, circa 1937 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Born, Max, 1882-1970. Journey to Russia, 1945. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949. New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
creatorOf [Irène Joliot-Curie, biographical materials] University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System
referencedIn Kowarski, Lew. Oral history interview with Lew Kowarski, 1969 March 20 to 20 November 1971. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Glenn T. Seaborg papers, 1866-1999 Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Guide to the Edward K. Barsky Photograph Collection, circa 1937 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Pienkowski, Stefan, 1883-1953. Files of Stefan Pienkowski. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1910-1994 (bulk 1922-1991) Oregon State University SpecialCollections & Archives Research Center, The ValleyLibrary
referencedIn Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. Curie and Joliot-Curie Archives, 1914-1958. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, E-J, [ca. 1870]-9999. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. Bohr scientific correspondence, supplement, 1910-1962. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
referencedIn Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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associatedWith Barsky, Edward K., 1897-1975. person
associatedWith Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. person
associatedWith Born, Max, 1882-1970. person
associatedWith Chadwick, James, 1891-1974. person
associatedWith Communist Party of the United States of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars corporateBody
associatedWith Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906- person
associatedWith Grosse, Aristid Victor, 1905-1985. person
associatedWith Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. person
associatedWith Kowarski, Lew. person
associatedWith Meloney, William Brown, 1905-1971. person
associatedWith Niels Bohr Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Pauling, Ava Helen person
associatedWith Pauling, Linus Carl, 1901- person
associatedWith Pienkowski, Stefan, 1883-1953. person
associatedWith Rona, Elizabeth. person
correspondedWith Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912- person
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Paris A8 FR
Paris A8 FR
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Birth 1897-09-12

Death 1956-03-17

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