Irene Joliot-Curie, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, carried the Curie name after her parents died. Irène Curie went on to become Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry. Irène Curie worked together with her mother to provide mobile X-ray units during World War I. She resumed her studies at the university in Paris after the war and later worked at the institute that her parents had founded. It was there that she conducted her Nobel Prize-awarded work together with Frédéric Joliot, her future husband in 1926. Her parents were politically active and worked to combat fascism and Nazism.
Family-Her parents were Pierre and Marie Curie. Her father was a French physical chemist, he won the Nobel Prize with Marie Curie because they discovered radium and polonium during radioactivity. He was born May 15, 1859 in Paris, France and he died on April 19, 1906, in Paris. Her mother is famous for her work on radioactivity and she won the Nobel Prize twice. She was born November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire and she died July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France. She had one sister named Eve Curie. Eve Curie is a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Eve was born December 6, 1904, in Paris, France and she died on October 22, 2007, in New York City.