Editing Irène Joliot-Curie (section)

=== Death ===
In 1956, after a final convalescent period in the French Alps, Joliot-Curie was admitted to the Curie Hospital in Paris, where she died on 17 March at the age of 58 from leukemia, possibly due to radiation from [[polonium-210]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Q&A: Polonium-210 |url=http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/November/27110601.asp | work=Chemistry World | publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry | date=27 November 2006 | access-date=4 September 2008}}</ref><ref name=Po210>{{cite journal |last1=Richter |first1=F. |last2=Wagmann |first2=M. |last3=Zehringer |first3=M. |title=Polonium – on the Trace of a Powerful Alpha Nuclide in the Environment |journal=CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry |year=2012 |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=131 |doi=10.2533/chimia.2012.131 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224869922|doi-access=free }}</ref> Frédéric's health was also declining, and he died in 1958 from liver disease, which too was said to be the result of overexposure to radiation.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family|last=Shelley |first=Emling |isbn=9780230115712|edition= First |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |oclc=760974704|date=21 August 2012 }}</ref>

Joliot-Curie was an atheist and anti-war.<ref name=":6" /><ref>"It was to her grandfather, a convinced freethinker, that Irène owed her atheism, later politically expressed as anticlericalism." [http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Irene_Joliot-Curie.aspx Joliot-Curie, Irène.] Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 17 March 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science|url=https://archive.org/details/curiesbiographyo00bria|url-access=registration|author=Denis Brian|publisher=Wiley|isbn=9780471273912|page=[https://archive.org/details/curiesbiographyo00bria/page/389 389]|quote=There were no prayers: Irene was deeply atheist.|date=August 2005}}</ref> When the French government held a national funeral in her honor, Irène's family asked to have the religious and military portions of the funeral omitted.<ref name=":6" /> Frédéric was also given a national funeral by the French government.<ref name=":6" />

Joliot-Curie's daughter, [[Hélène Langevin-Joliot]], went on to become a [[nuclear physicist]] and professor at the [[University of Paris]]. Joliot-Curie's son, [[Pierre Joliot]], went on to become a [[biochemist]] at the [[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]].<ref name=":6" />