Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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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.[1][2] They were the second ever married couple, after his wife's parents, 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.[3]
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie | |
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Born | Jean Frédéric Joliot (1900-03-19)19 March 1900 Paris, France |
Died | 14 August 1958(1958-08-14) (aged 58) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Known for | Atomic nuclei |
Spouse | Irène Joliot-Curie (m. 1926; died 1956) |
Children | Hélène Langevin-Joliot (b. 1927) Pierre Joliot (b. 1932) |
Relatives | parents-in-law: Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, chemistry |
Thesis | Etude électrochimique des radioéléments : Applications diverses (1930) |
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