1897 - Irène Joliot-Curie was born.

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Joliot-Curie was a French chemist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of new radioactive isotopes with her husband Frédéric. They bombarded stable atoms with alpha particles to transmute them into different radioactive elements. They created nitrogen from boron, phosphorus from aluminum and silicon from magnesium. She was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.