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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

1900–1958

French chemist and physicist (1900–1958)

Early 20th Century

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Birth

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Biography

Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie 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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Timeline

1900
Birth

French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

March 19 →
1958
Death

French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

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