Jo·liot-Cu·rie (zhô-ly  ky r  , -ky-r, -kü-), Irène 1897-1956. French physicist. She shared a 1935 Nobel Prize with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), for synthesizing new radioactive elements. |
Joliot-Curie (French) [ʒɔljokyri]
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(Biographies / Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frédéric (1900-1958) M, French, SCIENCE: physicist) Jean-Frédéric (ʒɑ̃frederik), 1900-58, and his wife, Irène (irɛn), 1897-1956, French physicists: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1935 for discovering artificial radioactivity
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| Noun | 1. | Joliot-Curie - French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) |
| 2. | Joliot-Curie - 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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