biography
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Joliot-Curie, (Jean) Frédéric
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originally Jean Frédéric Joliot
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pronunciation:
[zholyoh küree]
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| lived:
| (1900–58)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Sorbonne, where in 1925 he became assistant to Marie Curie, and in 1926 married her daughter Irène, with whom he shared the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Professor at the Collège de France (1937), he became a strong supporter of the Resistance movement during World War 2, and a member of the Communist Party. After the liberation he became high commissioner for atomic energy (1946–50), a position from which he was dismissed for his political activities. President of the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council, he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. |
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