Joliot-Curie

[ zhaw-lyoh-ky-ree ]

noun

1. I·rène [ee-, ren], Irène Curie, 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
2. her husband (Jean) Fré·dé·ric [zhah, n, f, r, ey-dey-, reek], Jean Frédéric Joliot, 1900–58, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935.

Joliot-Curie

/ ʒɔljokyri /

noun

1. Joliot-CurieJean-Frédéric19001958MFrenchSCIENCE: 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

Joliot-Curie

/ 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.

Example Sentences

"If such transmutations do succeed in spreading in matter," Joliot-Curie declared to his Nobel audience,

From Salon

Kean adds spark by focusing on the Allied effort and less familiar faces in the fray, from spy and baseball player Moe Berg to Nobel-prizewinning chemist Irène Joliot-Curie.

From Nature

In France, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie had shown that one element could be turned into another using artificially induced radiation.

From Nature

Daughter Irène Joliot-Curie won the prize in chemistry.

From Wall Street Journal

Returning to his studies, he earned a doctorate in physics and went to Paris to work on atomic radiation at the Joliot-Curie laboratories, where he said he suffered a second personal crisis.

From Seattle Times