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Noun: Joliot
  1. 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)
    - Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie

Type of: physicist

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