Joliot-Curie

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��·��è�Ա� [ee-, ren], ��è�Ա� Curie, 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
her husband (Jean) Fré·dé·ric [zhah, n, f, r, ey-dey-, reek], Jean Frédéric Joliot, 1900–58, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935.

Joliot-Curie

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Joliot-Curie��𲹲�-��é��é��19001958MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist ��𲹲�-��é��é�� (ʒɑ̃frederik), 1900–58, and his wife, ��è�Ա� (irɛn), 1897–1956, French physicists: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1935 for discovering artificial radioactivity

Joliot-Curie

French physicist who with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), made the first artificial radioactive isotope. They also contributed to the development of nuclear reactors.

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"If such transmutations do succeed in spreading in matter," Joliot-Curie declared to his Nobel audience,

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Kean adds spark by focusing on the Allied effort and less familiar faces in the fray, from spy and baseball player Moe Berg to Nobel-prizewinning chemist ��è�Ա� Joliot-Curie.

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In France, Frédéric and ��è�Ա� Joliot-Curie had shown that one element could be turned into another using artificially induced radiation.

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Daughter ��è�Ա� Joliot-Curie won the prize in chemistry.

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Returning to his studies, he earned a doctorate in physics and went to Paris to work on atomic radiation at the Joliot-Curie laboratories, where he said he suffered a second personal crisis.

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