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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

1900 - 1958

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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 parent-in-laws, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric Joliot-Curie has received more than 874,584 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Frédéric Joliot-Curie is the 47th most popular physicist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from France (up from 226th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Physicist.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French nuclear physicist who, with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. He was most famous for his work on artificial radioactivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 47 out of 851. Before him are Gerard 't Hooft, Max von Laue, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Philipp Lenard, and William Gilbert. After him are Léon Foucault, Christian Doppler, Barry Barish, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, and Wilhelm Wien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Himmler, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Erich Fromm, Martin Bormann, Luis Buñuel, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Vasily Chuikov. Among people deceased in 1958, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Wolfgang Pauli, Imre Nagy, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are John B. Watson, Ernest Lawrence, Roger Martin du Gard, Clinton Davisson, Kurt Alder, Faisal II of Iraq, and Milutin Milanković.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 222 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), André Breton (1896), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Gustave Le Bon (1841), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783). After him are Gustave Doré (1832), Léon Foucault (1819), Bernard Arnault (1949), François Boucher (1703), Pope Urban VI (1318), and Philip V of France (1293).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 6. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Henri Becquerel (1852), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), and Henry Cavendish (1731). After him are Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786).

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