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Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist who lived from 1900 to 1958 and made important contributions to nuclear science. His work helped advance our understanding of atomic structure and radioactivity during a crucial period in the development of modern physics.
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- 1900-03-19
- Died
- 1958-08-14
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- 2
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- La Paix le désarmement et la coopération internationale
- Etude électrochimique des radioéléments
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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie ( French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after his parents-in-law, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University.
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