The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, September 12, 2021 - a podcast by Prairie Home Productions

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Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, was born in Paris on this day 1897. Like her mother, she won a Nobel Prize for her work with radioactive elements, and like her mother, she died of leukemia as a result of that work.