Joliot-Curie, Irene, zhaw LYOH koo REE, ee REHN (1897-1956), was a French physicist known for her work with radioactivity, especially the production of artificial radioactive elements. She was the daughter of the Nobel Prize-winning physicists Marie and Pierre Curie. Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic, shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry.