TCE
    
|
The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 13
Issue 3 (2008) pp 161-169
Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958), Codiscoverer of Artificial Radioactivity: A Retrospective View on the 50th Anniversary of his Death
Jean-Pierre Adloff and George B. Kauffman*
Honorary Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, 63 Rue Saint Urbain, Strasbourg, France F-67100, jp.adloff@noos.fr, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, georgek@csufresno.edu
Published online: 14 May 2008
Abstract. This article, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958), discusses his life and career, particularly his contributions to radiochemistry and nuclear fission, both alone and with his wife Irène Curie (1897–1956), leading to their receipt of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Key Words: Chemistry and History; Radiochemistry; Artificial Radioactivity; Nuclear Fission; Priority; Uranium; Polonium; Radium; Biography; Nobel Prize: Scientists in Politics.
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: georgek@csufresno.edu)
Article in PDF format (329 KB) HTML format
Issue date: June
1, 2008
© The Chemical Educator 1996-2025