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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 four Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Science…
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science · French chemist and physicist (1900–1958) · nuclear physicist · chemist · professor · politician · university teacher · physicist · French resistance fighter · actor · scientist · also Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Frédéric Joliot, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Frederic Joliot, Jean Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie
Born 19 March 1900 · Died 14 August 1958 · Q150989
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Le Dauphiné Libéré: Accueil Culture - Loisirs La rue Irène et Frédéric-Joliot-Curie
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Artnet news: Portrait de Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 1959
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2024· 2 entries
Le Courrier Picard: Longueau : le collège Frédéric Joliot-Curie remet ses diplômes
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Libération: Irène Curie et Frédéric Joliot, des atomes très crochus
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2023· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Lycée Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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1958· 2 entries
Died 1958-08-14.
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From liver disease, which, like the death of his wife, was said to be the result of overexposure to radiation
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1956· 1 entry
Took over her position as Chair of Nuclear Physics at the Sorbonne
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (1950).
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And relieved of most of his duties, but retained his professorship at the Collège de France
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Łódź (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Oversaw the construction of the first French atomic reactor
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1947· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1947).
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1946· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1946).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1946).
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Career landmark: president (1946–1949).
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1945· 2 entries
Career landmark: high commissioner for atomic energy (1945–1950).
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Became France's first High Commissioner for Atomic Energy
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1940· 2 entries
Won Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1940).
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Joliot-Curie managed to smuggle his working documents and materials to England with Hans von Halban, Moshe Feldenkrais and Lew Kowarski
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1938· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1938).
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Career landmark: professor (1938–1957).
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1937· 1 entry
Left the Radium Institute to become a professor at the Collège de France
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1935· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1935).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1935).
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Were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of Induced radioactivity, resulting from the creation of short-lived radioisotopes by nuclear transmutation from the bombardment of stable nuclides such
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1932· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1932).
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1927· 2 entries
Joliot-Curie's children are Hélène Langevin-Joliot, born in 1927, and her brother, Pierre Joliot, born in 1932.
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And her brother, Pierre Joliot, born in 1932
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1926· 3 entries
Career landmark: marriage.
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Both changed their surnames to Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric and Irène hyphenated their surnames to Joliot-Curie after they married on 4 October 1926 in Paris, France, although their daughter has said, "Many people used to name my parents Joliot-Curie, but they signed their scientific papers Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot".
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1925· 1 entry
Became an assistant to Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-03-19.
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