![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1918 she became her mother’s assistant at The University of Paris. She showed interest and aptitude for science from an early age. Irène Curie was homeschooled by her parents and their many prize-winning friends. They were a bit star-crossed at first, since Irène’s mother did not approve of the match, but they ended up having a long and apparently happy marriage during which they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, had two children, and fought Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Less famous, but equally productive, was the romance between Curie’s daughter Irène and Irène’s husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie. If you’d like to learn more about it, I recommend a stunningly beautiful graphic novel, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, by Lauren Redniss. Marie Curie’s real life romance with her husband, Pierre, is quite well known. The Curie women all had amazing real life romances. This month in Real Life Romance, we talk about a particularly brilliant couple, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ![]()
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