Chemistry’s Nobel Laureates Marie Curie’s & Irene Joliot-Curie’s contribution in Science & Technology

ABSTRACT

Marie Curie was the first women to win a Nobel prize & only person to win Nobels in two different sciences viz. physics & Chemistry. Discover radioactive elements Radium & polonium then continue innovation by creating portable X-ray machines in World War I. She helped to establish the Radium Institute in Paris & was its first director. After her death her daughter Irene took over her position. The research idea was her own, no one helped her formulate it & although she took it to her husband for his opinion. She clearly established her ownership of it. It is likely that at this early stage of her carrier she realized that many scientists would find it difficult to believe that a women could be capable of the original work in which she was involved. Her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won Nobel after Marie’s death for synthesis of new radioactive elements i.e. artificial radioactivity in Chemistry. 

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