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This chapter provides a biographical profile of Irène Joliot-Curie, the daughter of Nobel laureates Marie and Pierre Curie, and details of her personal life and professional accomplishments. Growing up with internationally renowned parents, Irène led a life marked by both expectations and obligations. Irène, like her mother, chose to marry a scientist, Frédéric Joliot, with whom she would collaborate successfully (leading eventually to a joint Nobel Prize in Chemistry) and have two children, both of whom would become part of the next generation of scientists. Even with all of her successes, the difficulties of being a woman in the sciences affected Irène, as they had her mother. Denied memberships and honors given to men with equal successes, both Marie and Irène fought for their place, respectability and research opportunities.
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Gilmer, P.J. (2011). Irène Joliot-Curie, a Nobel Laureate in Artificial Radioactivity. In: Chiu, MH., Gilmer, P.J., Treagust, D.F. (eds) Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-719-6_3
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