Irène Joliot-Curie born this day in 1897, daughter of the Curies...

Irène Joliot-Curie born this day in 1897, daughter of the Curies (Nobel prizes in physics in 1903, his mother Marie also won the Chemistry Nobel in 1911), she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1935) with whom he had been her apprentice and then husband Frederic Joliot.

An interesting reading, the story of mother and daughter during WWI as nurse radiographers: Marie Curie - War Duty (1914-1919)

By the way, her daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, married Michel Langevin, grandson of the famous physicist Paul Langevin, thesis advisor of her mother, and in his younger days a doctoral student of her grandfather and lover of her grandmother after the tragic death of her husband and colleague (romance which caused a stir in the conservative society of the time, what inspired this famous letter from Einstein supporting Marie Curie). It’s a small world!

Image: Irene and Marie Curie in 1925 - via Wikimedia Commons