Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot work side by side at a long chemistry bench crowded with flasks, stands and burners in their laboratory in 1935. That was the year they shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for producing artificial radioactivity, turning stable elements into new radioactive ones by bombarding them with alpha particles. Irène was Marie Curie's daughter, and the picture shows the family trade carried into a second generation, in white lab coats this time.