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Irène Joliot-Curie

Chemist · born 12th September 1897

Date of birth
12 September
Birth year
1897
Lived
59
Zodiac
♍ Virgo

About Irène Joliot-Curie

French scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for her and her husband's discovery of artificial radioactivity.In 1946 she was accidentally expose to polonium, the chemical element that her parents discovered in 1898, and many believe that this exposure caused her death from leukemia ten years later.

Irène Joliot-Curie was born 12th September 1897 in Paris, France. Their primary profession is listed as chemist. They died in 1956. On 12 September, 613 people in our archive share this birthday.

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