The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
Awarded on: 1935-11-14
"in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
Affiliations:
- Institut du Radium – Paris, France
Frédéric Joliot
Born: 1900-03-19 in Paris, France
Gender: male
Field: French chemist and physicist (1900–1958)
Biography
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie 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.