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Irène Joliot-Curie

1897 - 1956

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Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist, the eldest child of Pierre and Marie Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. With her husband, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity, making them the second-ever married couple (after her parents) to win the Nobel Prize, while adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irène Joliot-Curie has received more than 3,403,196 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Irène Joliot-Curie is the 6th most popular chemist (up from 7th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from France (down from 80th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Chemist.

She was a French physicist and chemist who was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for her discovery of artificial radioactivity.

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Among chemists, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 6 out of 602. Before her are Alfred Nobel, Louis Pasteur, Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton. After her are Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 2. Before her is Joseph Goebbels. After her are Pope Paul VI, William Faulkner, Amelia Earhart, Anthony Eden, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ludwig Erhard, Ivan Konev, Paavo Nurmi, Wilhelm Reich, and Lucky Luciano. Among people deceased in 1956, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 2. Before her is Bertolt Brecht. After her are B. R. Ambedkar, Jackson Pollock, Konstantin von Neurath, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Pietro Badoglio, Jules Rimet, Emil Nolde, Frederick Soddy, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, and Lucien Febvre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 89 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis XVII of France (1785), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Pope Urban II (1042), and Gustave Courbet (1819). After her are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), and Caracalla (188).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Irène Joliot-Curie ranks 3. Before her are Louis Pasteur (1822), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743). After her are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Paul Sabatier (1854), Victor Grignard (1871), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), and Joseph Proust (1754).

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