Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)

Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie 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.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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August 14
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