
“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