- Timeline
- 1897-1956
- Field
- Chemistry, physics, radioactivity
- Institution
- University of Paris (La Sorbonne), France
Curie Institute, France - Known for
- The discovery of induced radioactivity
- Distinctions
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity with Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 1935
- Establishement of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for women in science in her honor, 2001