Curie and Joliot-Curie Archives, 1914-1958.

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. ...

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...

Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906

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Pierre Curie (b. May 15, 1859, Paris, France-d. April 19, 1906, Paris, France), French physicist and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity....

Joliot-Curie, Frédéric

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