Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Curie was born in Paris on 12 September 1897 to Marie and Pierre Curie, both Nobel laureates, and grew up inside the world's most famous scientific household. In 1935, she and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering induced radioactivity — the ability to synthesize radioactive elements in the lab. The win made them the second married couple to share the prize, after her own parents, and cemented the Curie family's unprecedented five-Nobel haul. A year later she broke new ground in French politics, becoming one of the first three women in governm…