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Irène Joliot-Curie

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Profession
Chemist
Died
Mar 17, 1956
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
ParisFrance
About
French scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for her and her husband's discovery of artificial radioactivity.In 1946 she was accidentally expose to polonium, the chemical element that her parents discovered in 1898, and many believe that this exposure caused her death from leukemia ten years later.
Family
She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie in 1935, nine years after they married.

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