[ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie)1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
2.
her husband, (Jean) Frédéric
[zhahn frey-dey-reek] /ʒɑ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), (Jean Frédéric Joliot)1900–58, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935.
British Dictionary definitions for Joliot-Curie
Joliot-Curie
/French ʒɔljokyri/
noun
1.
Jean-Frédéric (ʒɑ̃frederik), 1900–58, and his wife, Irène (irɛn), 1897–1956, French physicists: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1935 for discovering artificial radioactivity
French physicist. She shared a 1935 Nobel Prize with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), for synthesizing new radioactive elements.
Joliot-Curie in Science
Joliot-Curie
(zhô-lyō'kyr'ē) French physicist who with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), made the first artificial radioactive isotope. They also contributed to the development of nuclear reactors.