Source : WordNet®

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}]