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Irene Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) was a French scientist and 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner.
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While she was not a part of the Manhattan Project, her earlier research was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb.
Early Life
As the daughter of renowned scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene developed an early interest in science.
During World War I, she worked with her mother at the mobile field hospitals, operating the x-ray machines that her mother developed. Irene then returned to Paris to study chemistry at her parents’ Radium Institute where she wrote her doctoral thesis about radiation emitted by polonium.
The same year, her future husband Frederic Joliot joined the Radium Institute.
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Like her parents, they decided to conduct research jointly.
Scientific Contributions
In 1933, the Joliot-Curies made the discovery that radioactive elements can be artificially produced from stable elements.
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