3 Quotes & Sayings By Irene Joliotcurie

Irene Joliot-Curie was born in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Paris. She was a member of the Resistance during World War II and later worked as a physicist for the French atomic bomb project, which she helped develop. During this time, she met her future husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, also a physicist. The two married in 1946 and were inseparable during their years at the Institut für Strahlenchemie (Institute for Radium Research), where they studied radioactivity Read more

In 1951, suffering from breast cancer, Irene left her children with her husband and traveled to America to seek treatment. Irene and Frédéric Joliot-Curie died within six days of each other on August 3rd, 1956. Both were buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Richmond.

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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays. Irene JoliotCurie
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It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions. Irene JoliotCurie