'Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie' definitions:

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]