{"id":104339,"date":"2019-09-12T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=104339"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:36:51","slug":"profile-of-the-day-irene-joliot-curie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-irene-joliot-curie-104339.html","title":{"rendered":"Profile of the Day: Ire\u0300ne Joliot-Curie"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this day in 1897,\u00a0Nobel Prize-winning\u00a0scientist Ir\u00e8ne Joliot-Curie<\/a> was born in Paris, France.<\/p>\n

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Image: Ir\u00e8ne Joliot-Curie \/ Smithsonian Institution, Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n

The eldest daughter of\u00a0renowned\u00a0scientists Marie<\/a> and Pierre Curie<\/a>, it was almost inevitable that Joliot-Curie would follow in her parents’ footsteps.\u00a0After her father’s death in 1906, Joliot-Curie was raised by her mother, who emphasized the importance of education in the home. She developed an early interest in science, but the outbreak of World War I interrupted her academic studies. During the war, she served as a nurse radiographer in mobile field hospitals\u00a0alongside her mother. They used new X-ray\u00a0equipment developed by her mother to locate shrapnel to treat wounded soldiers.<\/p>\n

After the war, she returned to school to complete her education and begin working at the Radium Institute, which had been built by her parents. In 1926, she married physicist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Joliot<\/a>\u00a0and both\u00a0changed their\u00a0surnames to Joliot-Curie. In 1935, the couple was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. Their discovery would\u00a0make a significant impact in the fields\u00a0biomedical research and cancer treatments.<\/p>\n

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