'Jean-Frederic Joliot' definitions:
Definition of 'Jean-Frederic Joliot'
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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) [syn: Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie]