Creator: Stokley, James 1900-1990

Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956        Stokley, James 1900-1990        University of Pennsylvania

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1921

Topic: Physics      Women scientists      Nobel Prizes

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4488]

Summary: Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) is shown in full academic regalia on May 23, 1921, when she accepted an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania on behalf of her mother Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934). Accompanied by her daughters Irène and Eve, Marie Curie had an exhausting schedule of appearances during her 1921 U.S. tour, accepting awards and a gift of radium for her research, arranged by various women's associations and scientific groups. The photographer, James Stokley, was teaching school in Philadelphia and in 1925 became a science journalist on the Science Service staff

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives