Joliot‐Curie, Irène

Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK

Published online: January 2006

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002840

(1897–1956) French nuclear physicist and chemist, who with her husband Frédéric Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity. They shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Keywords: radioisotopes; Frédéric Joliot-Curie; Pierre Curie; Marie Curie

 Further Reading
    book Cotton E (1963) Les Curies. Paris: Seghers.
    book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Joliot F and Joliot-Curie I (1961) Oeuvres Scientifiques Complètes. Paris: Presses Universitaires France.
    book Mckown R (1961) She Lived for Science: Irène Joliot-Curie. New York: Messner.

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Power, Helen J(Jan 2006) Joliot‐Curie, Irène. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002840]