Did Irene Curie go to college?

Answer 1

Yes, she did.

Irene Curie "studie[d]at the Faculty of Science in Paris, she served as a nurse radiographer during the First World War. She became Doctor of Science in 1925, having prepared a thesis on the alpha rays of polonium. Either alone or in collaboration with her husband, she did important work on natural and artificial radioactivity, transmutation of elements, and nuclear physics; she shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1935 with him, in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements, which work has been summarized in their joint paper Production artificielle d'éléments radioactifs. Preuve chimique de la transmutation des éléments (1934)" (From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1966 ).

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