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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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French scientist (1900-1958)
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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- La Paix le désarmement et la coopération internationale
- Etude électrochimique des radioéléments
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1935
“in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”
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- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Saint-Antoine Hospital
- Spouse
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Position held
- professor
- Political party
- French Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- radiobiology
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- Frédéric Joliot-Curie ArM.jpg
- Residence
- Antony
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1900-03-19
- date of death
- 1958-08-14
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie
- cause of death
- liver disease
- writing language
- French
- relative
- Marie Curie
- birth name
- Jean Frédéric Joliot
- manner of death
- natural causes
- student
- Toshiko Yuasa
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- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
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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