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joliot (n)
French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
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French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wi
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Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, won a Nobel Prize with Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity in 1903, but it was their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, were the first to achieve man-made nuclear reactions on stable elements.
The research of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie on nuclear fission had unparalleled scientific importance and laid the groundwork for the development of nuclear energy.
Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, also discovered the neutron, which was key in the development of the atomic bomb.
