Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)
Born 1897 CE, died 1956 CE.
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. The couple also discovered positron emission in their process. 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. She and her mother Marie Skłodowska-Curie form the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. By the same occasion, Pierre and Irène Curie form the only father-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes, compared to six father-son pairs who have won Nobel Prizes. She was also one of the first three women to be a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research under the Popular Front in 1936.
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