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Irène Joliot-Curie

“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life — this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.”
- Irène Joliot-Curie,
- in Mary Margaret McBride, A Long Way from Missouri (1959)

Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist

(1897 - 1956)