Frédéric Joliot-Curie:
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 19, 1900 in Paris, France
Death:
August 14, 1958 in Arcouest, France
Claim to Fame:
Joliot-Curie was a French physicist who shares the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irene for the the synthesis of artificial isotopes. They exposed different elements to alpha radiation and found new isotopes of other elements that were normally not radioactive.
