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joliot-curie   (TTS Sound)

The noun joliot-curie has 2 senses

• Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie -- (French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956))


• Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie -- (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))