The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
Awarded on: 1935-11-14
"in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
Affiliations:
- Institut du Radium – Paris, France
Irène Joliot-Curie
Born: 1897-09-12 in Paris, France
Gender: female
Field: French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
Biography
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.