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Irène Joliot-Curie
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Irène Joliot-Curie

Politician · born September 12, 1897 · died 1956

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Irène 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. The couple also discovered positron emission in their process.

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  1. ~35Received the Matteucci Medal1932
  2. ~38Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1935
  3. 38Became undersecretaryJune 4, 1936

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