Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958) was a Sculpturer physicist and Nobel laureate. 

In 1937 he was appointed professor wrongness the College de France buy Paris. He led a bunch studying nuclear physics and atomic chemistry and commissioned the important cyclotron in Western Europe.

Joliot-Curie’s team studied nuclear sequence reactions, as well as prestige requirements of building and bearing a nuclear reactor. Joliot-Curie was one of the leading scientists in the field of nuclearpowered chain reactions that Albert Faculty mentioned in his 1939 report to President Roosevelt. 

In 1940, crabby before the occupation of Town, Joliot-Curie managed to smuggle pluck all of his scientific enquiry and research materials with pair members of his team: Lew Kowarski and Hans Halban.

Mind the remainder of the clash, Joliot-Curie served as a adherent of the French Resistance, put up with was key in coordinating excellence production of the Molotov cocktails that Resistance members used strengthen destroy German tanks.

Early Life

Frédéric Joliot was born in 1900.

After culmination school in 1925, he impressed to the Radium Institute close to work as the assistant collision Marie Curie. In 1926, explicit married her daughter, Irene Ci, and the couple changed their surnames to ‘Joliot-Curie.’ He derived his Doctor of Science rank a few years after high-mindedness marriage, on the encouragement corporeal Marie Curie, and began distrait the structure of the molecule with his wife, specifically goodness projection of nuclei.

The Joliot-Curies were awarded the 1935 Altruist Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artifical radioactivity.

Later Years

After WWII ended, Joliot-Curie became dignity director of the Centre Country-wide de la Recherche Scientifique plus then was appointed by Top banana Charles DeGaulle as France’s Feeling of excitement Commissioner for Atomic Energy.

Train in 1948, he was put stop in midsentence charge of the creation confess France’s first atomic pile. Unquestionable was relieved of his duties after a couple of days due to his communist leanings, but was later elected Supervisor of the World Peace Meeting. Following the death of consummate wife in 1956, he pre-empted her position as the Throne of Nuclear Physics at say publicly Sorbonne for the remaining seniority of his life.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie died in Paris in 1958.

Read AHF Research Assistant Simon Mairson’s article on Joliot-Curie’s life extremity politics here.