Irène Joliot-Curie
/Overview
Irène Joliot-Curie born Paris, France September 12, 1897 (d. 1956). Nobel Chemistry Prize 1930; Cold War pro-Communist pacifist; engaged feminist; suffragette; leader of World Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism 1934; Resistance to Nazis WWII; leader of pacifist Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF); supported Stockholm Appeal for Peace 1950; signed Russell-Einstein Call for Peace of Scientists 1955. Opposed use of nuclear material for bombs.
Quotations
On nuclear warfare and her mother, Marie Curie: "Its use for destruction seemed to [mother] a desecration. . . In her eyes any political consideration would not have been an excuse to use the atomic bomb." (encyclopedia.com; photo humantouchofchemistry)