Joliot-Curie

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Joliot-Curie
       n 1: French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new
            chemical elements (1897-1956) [syn: {Irene Joliot-Curie}]
       2: 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)
          [syn: {Joliot}, {Jean-Frederic Joliot}, {Jean-Frederic
          Joliot-Curie}]