As a young woman during World War I, Irène Joliot-Curie (left) worked with her mother Marie Curie (right) to provide mobile X-ray units for wounded soldiers. They are pictured here at the Hoogstade Hospital in Belgium in 1915.
After the war she resumed her studies and later worked at the institute founded by her parents - Marie and Pierre Curie. There she conducted her Nobel Prize-awarded work together with fellow researcher Frédéric Joliot, who she married in 1926.
Irène shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements" after they were the first people in history to create a radioactive element artificially.
Learn more about Irène Joliot-Curie:
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