1900 - 1958
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French: [fʁedeʁik ʒɔljo kyʁi]; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second ever married couple, after his wife's parents, 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 809,625 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Frédéric Joliot-Curie is the 42nd most popular physicist (up from 64th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from France (up from 345th in 2019) and the 8th 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, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 42 out of 717. Before him are Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Lise Meitner, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Ernst Mach, Andrei Sakharov, Thomas Young, James Chadwick, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, and Ludwig Boltzmann.
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 38
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 39
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 40
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 41
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 42
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 43
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 44
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 45
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 46
1837 - 1923
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 47
1844 - 1906
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1900, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Himmler, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Erich Fromm, Luis Buñuel, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, and Vasily Chuikov. Among people deceased in 1958, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Imre Nagy, John B. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Roger Martin du Gard, Clinton Davisson, Maurice de Vlaminck, Faisal II of Iraq, Kurt Alder, and Ernest Lawrence.
1900 - 1945
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 2
1900 - 2002
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 3
1900 - 1945
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 4
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 5
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 6
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 9
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 11
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 12
1900 - 1945
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 14
1876 - 1958
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 1
1896 - 1958
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 2
1878 - 1958
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 3
1920 - 1958
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 4
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 5
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 6
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 7
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 8
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 9
1935 - 1958
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 10
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 226 out of 6,011. Before him are Philip V of France (1293), Francis de Sales (1567), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Urban VI (1318), and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768). After him are Philip III of France (1245), Charlotte Corday (1768), Pope Leo IX (1002), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), and François Boucher (1703).
1293 - 1322
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 220
1567 - 1622
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 221
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 222
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 223
1318 - 1389
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 224
1768 - 1848
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 225
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 226
1245 - 1285
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 227
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 228
1002 - 1054
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 229
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 230
1796 - 1875
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 231
1703 - 1770
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 232
Among physicists born in France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ranks 8. Before him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Louis de Broglie (1892), and Léon Foucault (1819). After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788).
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 2
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 14