Irene Joliot-Curie
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7 min readSep 18, 2019
A French radiochemist, a battlefield radiologist, feminist and pacifist. Irene was awarded — jointly with her husband — the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity, which revolutionised modern physics and medicine.
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