Becoming radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie.
Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897, six years before her parents Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Early on, they were largely absent, working long hours to isolate radioactive elements. So the young Joliot-Curie was raised by her paternal grandfather, Eugene, a retired doctor who taught her to love nature, poetry, and radical politics.
She inherited her parents' love of science and ended up dedicating her own life to science as well. Along with her husband, Frédéric, she discovered the first-ever artificially created radioactive atoms, paving the way for innumerable medical advances, especially in the fight against cancer. Together they shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
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