(1900–1958) French nuclear physicist, who with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, discovered artificial radioactivity. They shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Keywords: radioisotopes; Irène Joliot-Curie
Joliot, Frédéric
HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002839
| Further Reading | |
| book De Broglie L (1959) La Vie et l'oeuvre de Frédéric Joliot. Paris: Editions Albin Michel. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Goldsmith M (1976) Frédéric Joliot–Curie: A Biography. London: Lawrence and Wishart. | |
| book Joliot F and Joliot-Curie I (1961) Oeuvres scientifiques complètes. Paris: Presses Universitaires France. | |
