nuclear reactor operational as a member of
the French Atomic Energy Commission. She was the daughter of Physicist Marie Curie.Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris, and she attended the College Sevigne. She worked as an assistant to her mother at the Institute Radium of the University of Paris beginning in 1918. In 1934, she and her husband Fredric Joliot studied how positive electrons (positrons) could be emitted when high-energy radioactive particles passed through matter. They also showed how a radioactive isotope of nitrogen could be produced by the assault of boron by alpha particles. They won the Noble Prize of Chemistry in 1935 for creating new radioactive elements.
Irène also studied uranium and was the head of the Radium Institute starting in 1946. In 1948, she made a
nuclear reactor operational as a member of
the French Atomic Energy Commission. She was the daughter of Physicist Marie Curie.
