Hotmail Search Shopping ... Upgrade your Encarta Experience Search Encarta Tasks Print Preview Related Items Curie, Marie more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Joliot-Curie, Ir¨ne and Jean-Fr©d©ric Advertisement Joliot-Curie, Ir¨ne and Jean-Fr©d©ric Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 3 items Joliot-Curie, Ir¨ne and Jean-Fr©d©ric (1897-1956 and 1900-1958 respectively), French physicists and Nobel laureates who were husband and wife. They are best known for their study of artificial radioactivity and for their contributions to the discovery of the neutron Ir¨ne Curie was born on September 12, 1897, in Paris, the daughter of the physicists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie . She was educated at the University of Paris, and from 1918 she assisted her mother at the Institute of Radium of the University of Paris. Fr©d©ric Joliot, born in Paris on March 19, 1900, was educated at the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris and at the University of Paris. While assisting also at the Institute of Radium, he met Ir¨ne Curie, and they married in 1926. They subsequently worked together as a scientific team, and both assumed the name of Joliot-Curie. The Joliot-Curies specialized in the field of nuclear physics. In 1933 they made the important discovery that radioactive elements can be artificially prepared from stable elements. In their experiments they bombarded boron with alpha particles , producing a radioactive form of nitrogen . For their contribution to nuclear research the Joliot-Curies were awarded the 1935 | |
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