Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

Institut Curie

“in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”

Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist. She shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie for their synthesis of new radioactive elements. She was affiliated with the Institut du Radium in France.

Field
Chemistry · Radiochemistry
Lifespan
1897–1956