Irene Joliot-Curie

IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist daughter Helene, who was married to Paul Langevin's grandson, and by biochemist son Pierre Joliot. She was also overshadowed by her non-scientist sister Eve Denise Curie, who wrote …

…way to create radioactive isotopes but they also contributed to the discovery of the electron. Also they did important work on natural and artificial radioactivity, transmutation of elements, and nuclear physics. Irene was a scientist who was overshadowed but not forgotten and the science world will remember her and her accomplishments throughout the years. She sacrificed her life in order to discover a cure for the disease that took her brilliant mind off the world.