Source : WordNet®

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