Joliot-Curie

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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)

French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)

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Fermi remembered that Joliot-Curie and Chadwick had noted that paraffin wax was effective at slowing neutrons, so he decided to try that. Source: Internet

Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie in Paris had evidence of positrons in old photographs when Anderson's results came out, but they had dismissed them as protons. Source: Internet

The DoE factsheet submitted for this experiment reported no follow up on these subjects. citation It has also been suggested that Irène Joliot-Curie was the first person to die from the radiation effects of polonium. Source: Internet

Ironically, Meitner was motivated to begin these calculations in order to show that Irene Joliot-Curie 's interpretation of some experiments violated the liquid drop model. Source: Internet

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