Joliot-Curie

American  

[zhaw-lyoh-ky-ree] / ʒɔˈlyoʊ küˈri /

noun

1. Irène Irène Curie, 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).

2. her husband (Jean) Frédéric Jean Frédéric Joliot, 1900–58, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935.

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Joliot-Curie British  

/ ʒɔljokyri /

noun

1. 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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Joliot-Curie Scientific  

/ zhô-lyō′kyr′ē /

1. French physicist who with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), made the first artificial radioactive isotope. They also contributed to the development of nuclear reactors.

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