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Irène Joliot-Curie
1897 – 1956 · aged 59
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
- Born
- 12 Sept 1897 · 13th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- 17 Mar 1956 · Paris
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 12 Sept 1897BornBorn in 13th arrondissement of Paris
- 1932AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1935AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1936RoleUndersecretary
- 1939AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
- 1946AwardOrder of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class
- 1947AwardCommander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- 1950AwardHonorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
- 1951AwardHonorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
- 17 Mar 1956DiedDied in Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1897 – 1956).
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
Biography
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 prize, adding to the Curie family's unbeaten legacy of five 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 newly established 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.
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