joliot-curie Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)
Irene Joliot-Curie.
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noun French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
Joliot; Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie; Jean-Frederic Joliot.