Irene Joliot-Curie (Curie)

Irene Curie was born in Paris in 1897. Her mother, Marie Curie, educated her at home.

She served as a radiographer in military hospitals during World War I. In 1921, she began conducting research at the Radium Institute in Paris, where her mother worked.

From 1931, she conducted studies on radioactivity with her husband. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 for their production of a radioactive isotope of phosphorus. She died in 1956 from leukemia due to a great deal of exposure to radioactivity.