Irène Curie
Biography:
The elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, Irènefollowed her parents’ footsteps into the lab. The thesis for her 1925 doctor of science was on the alpha rays of polonium, one of the two elements her mother discovered. The next year, she married Frédéric Joliot, one of her mother’s assistants at the Radium Institute in Paris. Irène and Frédéric continued their collaboration inside the laboratory, pursuing research on the structure of the atom. In 1934, they discovered artificial radioactivity by bombarding aluminum, boron and magnesium with alpha particles to produce isotopes of nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon and aluminum. They received the Nobel Prize in chemistry the next year, making Marie and Irène the first parent-child couple to have independently won Nobels. All those years working with radioactivity took a toll, however, and Irène died of leukemia in 1956.
"One must work seriously and must be independent and not spend his life simply having fun; That's what our mother, always told us, but never that science was the only career that was worth following "
Awards
-Nobel Prize in Physics
-Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioactivity with Frederic Joliot-Curie.
-Barnard College Gold Medal for Meritorious Service
Scientific achivements
Together with her husband she began her research in the field of nuclear physics, looking for the structure of the atom, particularly in the structure and projection of the nucleus which was fundamental for the subsequent discovery of the neutron in 1932, and in 1934 she managed to artificially produce elements that were Radioactive substances.
In 1935, both scientists were awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their work in the synthesis of new radioactive elements". The two worked on chain reactions and for the requirements for the successful construction of a nuclear reactor that used controlled nuclear fission to generate energy through the use of uranium and heavy water.
Conclusion
We decided to choose Irenè because she was a very important women who was working in scientifics things. Normally women at that time didn't work.
Usually the sons of the famous people have the fame when they born but Marie Curie won his fame alone makin all this discoverments.