Editing Irène Joliot-Curie (section)

===World War I===
[[File:Irène, Marie et Ève Curie.jpg|thumb|Irène and her mother and sister [[Ève Curie]]]]

Irène took a nursing course during college to assist her mother, Marie Curie, in the field as her assistant.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Patwardhan|first=Veena|date=27 March 2018|title=Irene Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)|journal=Chemical Industry Digest|id={{ProQuest| }}}}</ref> She began her work as a nurse radiographer on the battlefield alongside her mother, but after a few months she was left to work alone at a radiological facility in Belgium.<ref name=":12" /> She taught doctors how to locate shrapnel in bodies using radiology and taught herself how to repair the equipment.<ref name=":12" /> She moved throughout facilities and battlegrounds including two bombsites, [[Veurne|Furnes]] and [[Ypres]], and [[Amiens]].<ref name=":12" /> She received a military medal for her assistance in X-ray facilities in France and Belgium.<ref name=":2" />

After the war, Irène returned to the Sorbonne in Paris to complete her second baccalaureate degree in mathematics and physics in 1918.<ref name=":3" /> Irène then went on to work as her mother's assistant, teaching radiology at the [[Curie Institute, Paris|Radium Institute]], which had been built by her parents.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /> Her doctoral thesis was concerned with the [[alpha decay]] of [[polonium]], the element discovered by her parents (along with radium) and named after Marie's country of birth, Poland. Irène became a Doctor of Science in 1925.<ref name=":2" />