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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie were French physical chemists, husband and wife, who were jointly awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of new radioactive isotopes prepared artificially. They were the son-in-law and daughter of Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie.
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Jean Frédéric Joliot, dit Frédéric Joliot-Curie, né le 19 mars 1900 à Paris et mort le 14 août 1958 dans la même ville, est un physicien et chimiste français. Gendre de Pierre et Marie Curie, il a obtenu le prix Nobel de chimie en 1935 conjointement avec son épouse Irène Joliot-Curie.
Jun 24, 2015 · Frédéric Joliot-Curie. French chemist. Also known as: Jean-Frédéric Joliot. Learn about this topic in these articles: main reference. In Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie. …the same year she met Frédéric Joliot in her mother’s laboratory; she was to find in him a mate who shared her interest in science, sports, humanism, and the arts. Read More.
Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot, a wife-and-husband team, received a Nobel Prize for their artificial creation of radioactive isotopes. With their discovery of “artificial” or “induced” radioactivity, radioactive atoms could be prepared relatively inexpensively, a boon to the progress of nuclear physics and medicine.
Biographical. Jean Frédéric Joliot, born in Paris, March 19, 1900, was a graduate of the Ecole de Physique et Chimie of the city of Paris. His father was Henri Joliot, a merchant, and his mother was Emilie Roederer. In 1925 he became, at the Radium Institute, assistant to Marie Curie, whose daughter Iréne he married in 1926.
Frédéric Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie created the first artificial radioactive element by bombarding aluminum with alpha particles. Learn more about their discovery, their affiliation and their prize motivation on NobelPrize.org.
