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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

1900 – 1958 · aged 58

French scientist (1900-1958)

Born
19 Mar 1900 · 16th arrondissement of Paris
Died
14 Aug 1958 · Saint-Antoine Hospital
Part ofAtheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 67 years
  1. 19 Mar 1900BornBorn in 16th arrondissement of Paris
  2. 1932AwardMatteucci Medal
  3. 1935AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
  4. 1935AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  5. 1938AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
  6. 1938 – 1957RoleProfessor
  7. 1940AwardBarnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
  8. 1944 – 1946RoleDirector general of the National Center for Scientific Research
  9. 1945 – 1950RoleHigh commissioner for atomic energy
  10. 1946AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
  11. 1946AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  12. 1946 – 1949RolePresident
  13. 1947AwardHughes Medal
  14. 1949AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Łódź
  15. 1950AwardHonorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
  16. 14 Aug 1958DiedDied in Saint-Antoine Hospital

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1900 – 1958).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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 four Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University.

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