Irene Joliot-Curie

Daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. She studied in Paris, receiving a doctorate in 1925 with a thesis about Polonium alpha rays.

She carried out important work by herself and with her husband, Frederic Joliot, about natural and artificial radioactivity, elements transmutation and nuclear physics.

She shared with him the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1935, in recognition for the synthesis of new radioactive elements. She worked as a radiology nurse during the first war world and became director of Radio Institute in 1946.

She has great interest in the social and intellectual advancement of women. She had a daughter and a son. She passed away in 1956.