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Real Life Romance: Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie

by Carrie S · Oct 31, 2015 at 6:00 am · View all 7 comments

This month in Real Life Romance, we talk about a particularly brilliant couple, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The Curie women all had amazing real life romances. Marie Curie’s real life romance with her husband, Pierre, is quite well known. 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. I gave it an A. Less famous, … Continue reading Real Life Romance: Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie →