Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) was a French chemist and physicist who, with her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie, discovered induced radioactivity and observed positron emission in the same experiments, work for which the couple shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, making the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates of any.
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was a French chemist and physicist
Works In: Chemistry, Lead
was a French chemist
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