physicist

1. IRÈNE CURIE, 1897 – 1956
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2. Irène Curie
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3. Irène Curie
 Born: September 12, 1897, Paris, France
 Died: March 17, 1956 (only live for 58 years)
 Nationality: French
 Education: University of Paris
 Spouse: Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1926)
 Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 Parents:Marie Curie & Pierre Curie

4. contents
1 Background (Early Life)
2 Education
3 Notable Discoveries
4 Why famous
5 Life Struggles

5. Background(Early Life)
 At the time of Irène's birth, neither
parent was well-known, but that would
soon change. In 1903 her parents received
a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in
1911 her mother was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, becoming the only
scientist in history to win both prizes.
 Irène was a very shy child who had to
compete constantly with her parents’
powerful devotion to science. She felt they
did not spend enough time with her. As she
grew, Irène increasingly craved her
mother’s attention.
 After Pierre's mother died, his father who
is Eugène Curie,Grandpa Eugène, a retired
medical doctor, soon became the young girl's
best friend and first teacher. They were both
looking for sympathetic company.

6. Education
 Marie Curie was rising early
to give her children lessons each
day before going to her
laboratory. She also ensured the
girls were physically robust,
engaging them in horse riding,
hiking, swimming, skiing and
acrobatics.
 Marie discovered
dissatisfaction with the education
then available to children in Paris.
Marie and some of her
colleagues decided to take
matters into their own hands;
each would use his or her
expertise to educate a class
made up of all of their children.
For example ,physics was taught
by Marie Curie;chemistry was
taught by Jean Baptiste Perrin .

7. Education
 Irène returned to Paris in
September 1913 to attend 'normal'
school lessons at Collège
Sévigné.Within a year of her return,
World War 1 had begun.
 At the age of 17,Irène took a
nursing course in addition to work
she was doing for her school
certificate and courses she had
begun at the Sorbonne.
 Soon, Irène was teaching
radiology to nurses recruited by
Marie Curie to serve in her field
radiology units.Irène then served
in battlefield hospitals herself,
taking x-rays.
 Aged 21, she became her
mother' s laboratory assistant at
the Radium Institute.

8. Joliot-Curie
Irène and Frédéric hyphenated their
surnames to Joliot-Curie after they
married in 1926.
Eleven months later, their daughter
Hélène was born; she would also
become a noted physicist. Their son,
Pierre, a biologist, was born in 1932.

9. could have won them three separate Nobel
Prizes. However, they misinterpreted results
from two sets of experiments (two sets of
results could have led them to discover the
neutron and the positron)
had converted aluminum
atoms into atoms of
radioactive phosphorus-30,
an isotope of phosphorus
that – with a half-life of 150
seconds – had never been
observed in nature
pioneered research into radium
nuclei that led a separate group of
German physicists to
discover nuclear fission
Notable Discoveries
discovered how to
synthesize 'designer'
radioactive elements in
the laboratory

10. 0 1 Notable honors
0 2 Political Views
Why famous
 got Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial
radioactivity with Frederic Joliot-Curie
 Barnard College Gold Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
1940 with Frederic Joliot-Curie.
 the officer of the Legion of Honor
 had become increasingly aware of the growth of the fascist movement.
They opposed its ideals and joined the Socialist Party in 1934, and in
1936 actively supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
 The Joliot-Curies had continued Pierre and Marie’s policy of publishing
all of their work for the benefit of the global scientific community.
 became actively involved in promoting women’s education, serving on
the National Committee of the Union of French Women and the World
Peace Council

11. During World War II Joliot-Curie
contracted tuberculosis and was
forced to spend several years
convalescing in Switzerland.
In the spring of 1906, when
Irène was eight years old, her
father Pierre was hit by a
carriage in the street and
killed
With so many so closely with radioactive materials
finally caught up with Joliot-Curie and she was
diagnosed with leukemia. Irène Joliot-Curie died of
leukemia at the age 58 in the Curie Hospital in Paris
Life Struggles

12. Comment about her
“Her parents were both persons of strong and independent
mind. Joliot-Curie inherited much of their character as well as
their scientific genius. She had a powerful personality, simple,
direct and self-reliant. She knew her mind and spoke it,
sometimes perhaps with devastating frankness; but her
remarks were informed with such regard for scientific truth and
with such conspicuous sincerity that they commanded the
greatest respect in all circumstances. ”