Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒoljokyʁi], September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French atomic physicist. His father was Pierre Curie and his mother was Marie Curie. The younger sister is Eve Curie. Irena was born in Paris and received her degree from the University of Paris in research related to alpha particles of the element polonium. In 1926, she married Frederic Joliot, an assistant to her mother Marie. Synthesized phosphorus-30 in 1934, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frederick in 1935 for "Research on Artificial Radioisotopes".