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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectFrédéric Joliot-Curie
Dates
March 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958
Authorized Form of Name
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
Additional Forms of Names
Joliot, F., 1900-1958
Joliot, Frédéric, 1900-1958
Joliot, Jean Frédéric
Жолио-Кюри, Фредерик, 1900-1958
كوري،, جوليو, 1900-1958
Biography
Abstract
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a nuclear chemist at the Institut du Radium. He was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with his wife Irene Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements."
Important Dates
March 19, 1900Birth, Paris (France).
1925Assistant, Institut du Radium, Paris (France).
1930Obtained PhD in Electrochemistry, University of Paris (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1935Lecturer, Université Paris Sud, Paris (France).
1935Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Irene Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements".
1937 – 1944Professor, Collège de France, Paris (France).
1944 – 1958Director (1945-1946); High Commssioner Atomic Energy (1946-1950); and Director (1951-1958), French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris (France).
1946Foreign Member, Royal Society.
1947Awarded Hughes Medal, Royal Society.
1951Awarded Stalin Peace Prize.
1951 – 1958Laboratory Director, Collège de France, Paris (France).
1956 – 1958Director, Curie Laboratory, Institut du Radium, Paris (France).
1956 – 1958Professor, Université Paris Sud, Paris (France).
1958Member, French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences), Paris (France).
August 14, 1958Death, Paris (France).
Occupation
Nuclear chemist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Mother-in-law.
Father-in-law.
Joliot, Pierre
Son.
Wife and share 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements."
Langevin-Joliot, Helene, 1927-
Daughter.
Advisors & Collaborators
Advised by Joliot-Curie at University of Paris (Université de Paris).
Halban, Hans von, 1908-1964
Advised by Joliot-Curie at Collège de France.
Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946
Advised Joliot-Curie as a research assistant at École normale supérieure.
Additional
Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-1980
Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985
Guéron, Jules
Klein, Oskar
Kowarski, Lew
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Meloney, William Brown
Moller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980
Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958
Perrin, Francis
Pienkowski, Stefan, 1883-1953
Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959
Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
Waly, Adnan
Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007
Institutions
Major Positions
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)
Director and High Commissioner.
Collège de France
Professor and Laboratory Director.
Institut Curie
Assistant and Director, Curie Laboratory.
Université Paris-Sud
Lecturer and Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Académie des Sciences (France)
Member.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Foreign member and awarded 1947 Hughes Medal.
Université de Paris
Obtained PhD in Electrochemistry (1930).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Curie and Joliot-Curie Archives, 1914-1958.
Association Frederic et Irene Joliot-Curie
11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05
Frederic Joliot-Curie selected correspondence and clippings, 1936-1944.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Christian Møller papers, 1928-1980.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frédéric Joliot, la science et la sociéte [microform] : un itinéraire de la physique nucléaire a la politique nucléaire (1900-1958), Michel Pinault, 1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Georg von Hevesy scientific correspondence, 1910-1966.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glenn T. Seaborg papers, 1866-1999 (bulk 1940-1998).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Hans Halban papers, 1939-1940.
Great Britain, National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, UK
How it came about, circa 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Les cyclotronistes du college [videorecording], 2006.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lew Kowarski papers, 1907-1981 (bulk 1930-1981).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Oral history interview with Adnan Waly, 1994 February-March.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1985 May 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, 1977 November 11 to 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Helene Langevin-Joliot, 2003 April 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15, 16, 17 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jules Gueron, 1978 April 14, 15 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lew Kowarski, 1974 November 20 and 2 August 1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Oskar Benjamin Klein, 1962 September 25 to 16 July 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Wolfgang Gentner, 1971 November 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pais Prize Session [sound recording], 2017 March 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Stefan Pienkowski files.
Archiwum (Warszawa)
Polska Akademia Nauk
Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
William B. Meloney collection on Marie Curie, 1920-1943.
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Columbia University
Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA
Published Resources
Author
L'électron positif/ par Irène Curie et F. Joliot.
Oeuvres scientifiques complétes: Frédéric et Irène Joliot-Curie.
Subject
Frédéric Joliot-Curie Nobel Prize biography.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie/ Michel Pinault.