Irene Joliot-Curie
1897-1956
Irene Joliot-Curie:
Informational:
Irene Curie was born in 1897, and following the footsteps of her parents, Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene went to Sorbonne. She began assisting her mother with the radium institute, now known as the Curie Institute, and there she met Frederic Joliot. They eventually married and worked together. Irene did not changer her name when she married, she added to it, but they both took the title ‘Joliot-Curie’.
Together the Joliot-Curies discovered how to create radioactive elements from stable ones, Irene became a professor at Sorbonne. She died in 1956 due to leukemia brought on by her work and exposure to radiation.
Impact of her research:
She was the first person to successfully create an element out of stable elements, this lead to great strides in technology and the like.
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