Irène Joliot-Curie was born on 12 September 1897 in 13th arrondissement of Paris. A French chemist and physicist, Joliot-Curie was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, and she worked in her mother's Radium Institute. With her husband Frederic Joliot she discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934 by bombarding aluminum with alpha particles to produce radioactive phosphorus, and they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. The couple were also politically engaged, and she was one of the first women to hold a position in the French government as undersecretary of state for scientific research in 1936. She died of leukemia, probably linked to her long exposure to radiation.
Before and after
- 18 June 1897Founding of Kyoto University
- 24 July 1897Birth of Amelia Earhart
- from 16 August 1897 to 5 November 1899Belgian Antarctic Expedition
- 20 August 1897Ronald Ross shows that mosquitoes transmit malaria
- 12 September 1897Birth of Irène Joliot-Curie
- 25 September 1897Birth of William Faulkner
- 26 September 1897Birth of Paul VI
- from 12 October 1897 to 29 August 1910Korean Empire
- 29 October 1897Birth of Joseph Goebbels
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