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Irène Joliot-Curie

1897 - 1956

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Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) 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. Her mother Marie Skłodowska-Curie and she also form the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes whilst Pierre and Irène Curie form the only father-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes by the same occasion, whilst there are six father-son pairs who have won Nobel Prizes by comparison. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irène Joliot-Curie is the 7th most popular chemist (down from 6th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from France (up from 89th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Chemist.

She was a French physicist and chemist who was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for her discovery of artificial radioactivity.

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Among chemists, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 7 out of 602. Before her are Louis Pasteur, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, and Jabir ibn Hayyan. After her are Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, and Svante Arrhenius.

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Among people born in 1897, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 3. Before her are Joseph Goebbels, and Pope Paul VI. After her are William Faulkner, Patrick Blackett, Amelia Earhart, Zakir Husain, Tadeusz Reichstein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ivan Konev, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Thích Quảng Đức. Among people deceased in 1956, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 2. Before her is Bertolt Brecht. After her are B. R. Ambedkar, Jackson Pollock, William Boeing, Frederick Soddy, Konstantin von Neurath, Pietro Badoglio, Jules Rimet, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Emil Nolde.

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In France

Among people born in France, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 87 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis IX of France (1214), Henri Bergson (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Tacitus (54), Jacques Cartier (1491), and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757). After her are Pope Clement V (1264), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis de Broglie (1892), Louis Braille (1809), and Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 3. Before her are Louis Pasteur (1822), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743). After her are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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