Irene Joliot-Curie, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie became an eminent chemist in her own right. In 1935, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
During World War I Joliot-Curie served with her famous mother, Marie Curie as a radiographer in field hospitals before earning her doctorate after the war.
Working with her husband, the chemist Frédéric Joliot-Curie they carried out important research on atomic nuclei and natural and artificial radiology.
Joliot-Curie's exposure to dangerous substances eventually overcame her and she died of leukemia from its effects aged 59.
She was born on this day, (September 12), in 1897
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