Irène Joliot-Curie:
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 12, 1897 in Paris, France
Death:
March 17, 1956 in Paris, France from leukemia due to an accidental exposure to radioactive polonium.
Claim to Fame:
Joliot-Curie was a French chemist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of new radioactive isotopes with her husband Frédéric. They bombarded stable atoms with alpha particles to transmute them into different radioactive elements. They created nitrogen from boron, phosphorus from aluminum and silicon from magnesium. She was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.
