- 1: Irène Joliot-Curie in 1921, accepting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania on the behalf of her mother Marie Curie.
- When Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 “in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive...
- Pierre and Marie’s daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie (born 1897), won the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with her husband, Frédèric Joliot-Curie.
- Following her doctorate degree and marriage to fellow researcher Frederic Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie immersed herself completely into scientific research.
- Besides very involving scientific work, Irene Joliot-Curie took part also in the social-political activity, although she was not in any political party, like her mother.
- Nobel Prize: In 1935, Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
- Unfortunately, however, she was not destined to enjoy a long life. Irène Joliot-Curie died age 58 of leukemia in the Curie Hospital in Paris on March 17, 1956.
- Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot, a wife-and-husband team, received a Nobel Prize for their artificial creation of radioactive isotopes.
- Honors did not change Irène Joliot-Curie, who retained throughout her life a great simplicity and a thorough uprightness.