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How did Irène Joliot-Curie's Nobel Prize connect to her mother Marie Curie's earlier work on radioactivity?
Nobel Prize History
Radioactivity and Radioactive Decay
Scientific Priority and Credit Disputes
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Discovery of artificial radioactivity
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