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.

---

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

---

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.

---

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, and her husband, Frédéric Joliet, were awarded the chemistry prize in 1935.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2019

Only four women have ever won the prize: Ada Yonath in 2009, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935, and of course her mum, Marie Curie, in 1911.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2018

Irene Joliot-Curie; and Henry Richardson Labouisse, 50, United Nations official; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie, Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie were members of physics royalty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik