“In many ways, the team of Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, as they chose to call themselves, must have reminded Marie Curie of her own partnership with Pierre. Frédéric, like Pierre, was a {{w|physicist}} and a tinkerer who loved playing around with {{w|Scientific instrument|instrument}}s. Irène, like her mother, was more the {{w|chemist}}.”