But did you know that Marie and Pierre Curie's daughter went on to win a Nobel Prize herself? Born on September 12, 1897, in Paris, France, Irene Joliot-Curie emerged as a prominent figure in the ...

Irène Joliot-Curie, her husband Frédéric ... Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ...

THE news has just been published of the award to Madame Curie of the Nobel prize for chemistry. This great woman scientist thus enjoys the extraordinary distinction of having twice been honored ...

While Pierre was killed in a street accident in Paris in 1906, Marie won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, this time in chemistry for her work in radioactivity. FREDERIC JOLIOT and IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE ...

So the Radium Institute had two departments, one part for physics and chemistry directed by Marie Curie, and one part for biology and ... After the discovery of artificial radioactivity and the Nobel ...

She thus became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. The Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, followed in her mother's footsteps. As a young woman, Irène worked with her mother running radiology ...

Years later, her daughter, Irene, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1935) jointly with her husband. The Curie family holds the record for the highest number of Nobel laureates. When Marie Curie was ...