Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie

Marie and Pierre Curie’s daughter Irène became a chemist and conducted research with her mother at the Radium Institute. There, she met her future husband, physicist Frédéric Joliot. Their daughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot and historian Spencer Weart discusses the relationship and scientific partnership of the Joliot-Curies.

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