Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie | |
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Joliot-Curie in 1935 | |
| Born | Jean Frédéric Joliot 19 March 1900 |
| Died | 14 August 1958 (aged 58) Paris, French Fourth Republic |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Discovering induced radioactivity |
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| Children | |
| Family | Curie (by marriage) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Physics |
| Institutions | Collège de France |
| Thesis | Etude électrochimique des radioéléments : Applications diverses (1930) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marie Curie |
| Doctoral students | Georges Charpak |
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) 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.