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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

1900 - 1958

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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) 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. They were the second married couple, after his parents-in-law, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Joliot-Curie is the 72nd most popular physicist (down from 47th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from France (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Physicist.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French nuclear physicist who, with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. He was most famous for his work on artificial radioactivity.

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Among physicists, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 72 out of 851. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Philipp Lenard, and Lev Landau. After him are Ludwig Boltzmann, Max von Laue, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Edward Teller, James Chadwick, and Hermann von Helmholtz.

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Among people born in 1900, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 12. Before him are Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. After him are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Gladwyn Jebb, Dennis Gabor, Spencer Tracy, and Heinrich Müller. Among people deceased in 1958, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Rosalind Franklin, Wolfgang Pauli, Imre Nagy, and Roger Martin du Gard. After him are Kurt Alder, Tyrone Power, Faisal II of Iraq, Clinton Davisson, Ernest Lawrence, and John B. Watson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 259 out of 6,770. Before him are John II of France (1319), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Nadar (1820), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Arsène Wenger (1949), and Louis VI of France (1081). After him are François Truffaut (1932), Philip III of France (1245), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Annie Ernaux (1940), Saint Roch (1295), and François Boucher (1703).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 9. Before him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), and Léon Foucault (1819). After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799).

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