Irène Joliot-Curie | French chemist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  In Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie
  Irène Curie from 1912 to 1914 prepared for her baccalauréat at the Collège Sévigné and in 1918 became her mother’s assistant at the Institut du Radium of the University of Paris. In 1925 she presented her doctoral thesis on the alpha rays of polonium. In…
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nuclear fission

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  In nuclear fission: History of fission research and technology
  …following a clue provided by Irène Joliot-Curie and Pavle Savić in France (1938), proved definitely that the so-called transuranic elements were in fact radioisotopes of barium, lanthanum, and other elements in the middle of the periodic table.
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relation to Pierre and Marie Curie

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  In Marie Curie: Death of Pierre and second Nobel Prize
  …the help of her daughter Irène, devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography. In 1918 the Radium Institute, the staff of which Irène had joined, began to operate in earnest, and it was to become a universal centre for nuclear physics and chemistry. Marie Curie, now at…
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  In Pierre Curie
  Pierre and Marie’s daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie (born 1897), won the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with her husband, Frédèric Joliot-Curie.
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