
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after his parents-in-law, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Sacl
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Joliot-Curie Peace Award World Recognition for Father of the Bengali Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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Inauguration of Joliot-Curie, the French supercomputer dedicated to French and European research