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Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment Irene Joliot-Curie was a Nobel Prize-winning atomic physicist who made groundbreaking discoveries that changed the course of modern cancer treatment, including the synthesis of artificial radioactivity. In 1934, Irene and her husband Frederic discovered phosphorus-30, the first artificially made radioisotope, […]

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