'Joliot-Curie' definitions:
Definition of 'Joliot-Curie'
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noun
French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) [syn: Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie]
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]