Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 - 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. Read more