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Joliot-Curie

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Jo·liot-Cu·rie  (zhô-lykyr, -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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Noun1.Joliot-Curie - French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)
Irene Joliot-Curie
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)
Jean-Frederic Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, Joliot
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