Frédéric Joliot-Curie
March 19, 1900 –August 14, 1958
Nuclear physicist, Chemist, Professor, Politician, University teacher, Physicist
Lived 58 years
- Born in
- Paris
- Passed away in
- Paris
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 four Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University.
Awards: Commander of the Legion of Honour, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Hughes Medal, Matteucci Medal, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class, International Stalin Prize for Peace, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw Education: Lycée Lakanal, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, Science Faculty of Paris
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