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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Politician · born March 19, 1900 · died 1958

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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie 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.

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  1. ~32Received the Matteucci Medal1932
  2. ~35Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1935
  3. ~38Became professor1938
  4. ~47Received the Hughes Medal1947

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