Joliot

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Joliot
       n : 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: {Jean-Frederic Joliot}, {Joliot-Curie},


            {Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie}]