View asset onlyMarie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie, 1925Marie Curie and her daughter, Irene; anon., 1925. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to date to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) was a French scientist, the elder daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.IdentifierAKG7416976SourceScience SourceCredit lineakg-images / Science SourceImage date14.2.2019Time Period20TH CENTURYTopicCHEMISTRYDAUGHTERHISTORYNOBEL PRIZEPERSONSCIENTISTWOMANPersonIRENE JOLIOT-CURIEMARIE CURIESize2558px × 3580px (26 MB) 21.6 cm × 30.3 cm @ 300 dpiAdd to lightbox: 'My First Lightbox'Add to cartDownloadRelated Selections:Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
