July 23, 2024
The daughter of two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize. Like her mother, she won alongside her husband. Mother and daughter cowrote the entry for radium in the 13th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
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