Nobel Prize
Do you recognise the married couple that were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935? The radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie. Along with her husband, Frédéric, she discovered the first-ever artificially created radioactive atoms, paving the way for innumerable medical advances, especially in the fight against cancer.The couple met after World War I, when Irène became her mother’s assistant at the Radium Institute. There her mother (Marie Sklodowska Curie) asked her to train fellow researcher, Frédéric Joliot. As Irène taught this chemical engineer about the various methods of their radiochemical lab, she found in Joliot a partner in work who could also be a partner in life. The two young scientists married in 1926. Nine years later, in 1935, the pair were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements."Photo: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives via flickr.
Do you recognise the married couple that were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935?
The radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie. Along with her husband, Frédéric, she discovered the first-ever artificially created radioactive atoms, paving the way for innumerable medical advances, especially in the fight against cancer.
The couple met after World War I, when Irène became her mother’s assistant at the Radium Institute. There her mother (Marie Sklodowska Curie) asked her to train fellow researcher, Frédéric Joliot. As Irène taught this chemical engineer about the various methods of their radiochemical lab, she found in Joliot a partner in work who could also be a partner in life. The two young scientists married in 1926.
Nine years later, in 1935, the pair were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements."
Photo: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives via flickr.
11月7日簡介居禮夫妻家族 ：Curie family
2020年在台灣可以找到居禮夫婦及其女兒的傳記，如下
女兒之一Eve Curie 1904~2007
居禮夫人 (Curie, Marie, 1867-1934)
台灣在版：民58[1969]人人文庫. 151-152.
自動化書庫一般館藏 784.28 7735 7735 1969
台灣在版：民58[1969]人人文庫. 151-152.
自動化書庫一般館藏 784.28 7735 7735 1969
----女兒 Irène Curie 1897~1956也得諾貝爾獎。女兒Ève Curie 1904~2007於1937年寫母親傳《居禮夫人傳》(Madame Curie: A Biography 全譯本) 台灣新潮文庫，1977： 曹永洋、鍾玉澄合譯。很好的翻譯本。
