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Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie 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 in their process. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the…
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science · French chemist and physicist (1897–1956) · physicist · chemist · professor · politician · nuclear physicist · researcher · also Irène Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Irène Curie, Joliot-Curie
Born 12 September 1897 · Died 17 March 1956 · Q7504
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2026· 3 entries
L'Humanité: Femme scientifique de l’année : Valentina Emiliani reçoit le prix Irène Joliot-Curie 2026
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Joliot-Curie and her mother were announced as among the 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower
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2025· 2 entries
ActuaLitté: L'incroyable destin de Irène Joliot-Curie, femme engagée et prix nobel de chimie
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Nature: Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)
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2024· 1 entry
Mediapart: Irène Joliot-Curie, l’étoile filante progressiste
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2022· 2 entries
Europe1: Irène Joliot-Curie, chimiste dans les pas de sa mère Marie Curie (partie 2)
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Europe1: Irène Joliot-Curie, chimiste dans les pas de sa mère Marie Curie (partie 1)
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2019· 2 entries
Hackaday: Irène Joliot-Curie And Artificial Radioactivity
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Hackaday: Irène Joliot-Curie
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2018· 1 entry
Le Parisien: SERIE. Ces Essonniennes ont du talent : Irène Joliot-Curie a fait de l’Essonne une terre de sciences
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2013· 1 entry
RealClearScience: Manmade Radioactivity: Irene Joliot-Curie
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1958· 1 entry
From liver disease, which too was said to be the result of overexposure to radiation
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1956· 2 entries
Died 1956-03-17.
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After a final convalescent period in the French Alps, Joliot-Curie was admitted to the Curie Hospital in Paris, where she died on 17 March at the age of 58 from leukemia, possibly due to radiation from polonium-210
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1955· 1 entry
Drew up plans for new physics laboratories at the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, which is now a part of the Paris-Saclay University, south of Paris
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (1950).
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1948· 3 entries
During a strike involving coal miners, Joliot-Curie reached out to Paris Newsletters to convince families to temporarily adopt the children of the coal miners during the strike
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In 1948, during a strike involving coal miners, Joliot-Curie reached out to Paris Newsletters to convince families to temporarily adopt the children of the coal miners during the strike.
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Using work on nuclear fission, the Joliot-Curies, along with other scientists, created the first French nuclear reactor
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1947).
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class (1946).
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Became director of her mother's Institut Curie
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1945· 1 entry
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
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1944· 2 entries
Joliot-Curie judged it too dangerous for her family to remain in France and she took her children back to Switzerland
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Finally, in 1944, Joliot-Curie judged it too dangerous for her family to remain in France and she took her children back to Switzerland.
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1941· 1 entry
Between 1941 and 1943, during World War II, Joliot-Curie contracted tuberculosis and was forced to spend time convalescing in Switzerland.
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1940· 1 entry
With Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1939).
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1936· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1936).
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Career landmark: undersecretary (1936–1936).
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1935· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.
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For the discovery of artificial radioactivity with Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Brought with it fame and recognition from the scientific community and Joliot-Curie was awarded a professorship at the Faculty of Science
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1934· 2 entries
The Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes a year later, and in 1936 they actively supported the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War
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The Joliot-Curies made a discovery that sealed their place in scientific history
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1933· 2 entries
Joliot-Curie and her husband were the first to calculate accurately the mass of the neutron
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Confirmed on 13 January 1939 that Hahn and Strassmann had indeed observed nuclear fission: the splitting of the nucleus itself, emitting vast amounts of energy
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1932· 2 entries
Won Matteucci Medal (1932).
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Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric had full access to Marie's polonium
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1926· 1 entry
Irène and Frédéric hyphenated their surnames to Joliot-Curie after they married in 1926.
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Irène Curie was asked to teach the precision laboratory techniques required for radiochemical research to the young chemical engineer Frédéric Joliot, whom she would later wed
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1906· 2 entries
Due to a horse-drawn wagon incident, and Marie was left to raise them
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It was obvious Irène was talented in mathematics
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1897· 2 entries
Born 1897-09-12.
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Finally replaced John Dalton's model of atoms as solid spherical particles
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