Irène Curie
Irène Curie is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Irène Curie
French chemist who received—with her husband, Frederic Joliot—the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She contributed to the 13th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Primary Contributions (1)
For the 13th edition (1926) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Marie Curie, cowinner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, wrote the entry on radium with her daughter Irène Curie, later Irène Joliot-Curie and cowinner of the 1935 Nobel Prize for…
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