Irène Joliot-Curie(1897–1956)
ChemistryIrène Joliot-Curie 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.
France
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Publications
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Citations
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Awards & Recognition
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1935in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements
Institut du RadiumMost Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#2
Questions of measurements and standardization in radioactivity
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences(1945)
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Constantes radioactives admises en 1930. Rapport de la Commission Internationale de l'étalon de radium
Journal De Physique Et Le Radium(1931)
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Recent Publications
View all works[Radioactivity in France].
Le Medecin generaliste de France1950
0citations
Questions of measurements and standardization in radioactivity
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences1945
0citations
Constantes radioactives admises en 1930. Rapport de la Commission Internationale de l'étalon de radium
Journal De Physique Et Le Radium1931
2citations
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Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
Collège Sévigné
Science Faculty of Paris(doctorate in France)
University of Paris
Doctoral Advisors
Yang ChengzongPaul Langevin
Positions & Roles
undersecretary
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
KB
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
FS
Frederick Sanger
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
OY
Omar Yaghi
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
GW
Greg Winter
Copley Medal (2025)
JM
John Michael Jumper
Fellow of the Royal Society (2025)
RR
Richard Robson
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
SK
Susumu Kitagawa
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
DH
Demis Hassabis
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
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