Jeans Joliot

Then, in 1932, Irene Joliot-Curie (the daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband, Jean Joliot, published a paper reporting that gamma rays were produced when paraffin was bombarded with alpha particles. When Rutherford and Chadwick read the paper, they didn t believe it. They suspected that what the two French physicists had seen was not gamma rays but neutrons. 

Jean-Fr6ddric Joliot, 1900-1958. Physicist and chemist at the Curie Institute. He has made many important researches on the phenomenon of recoil and the conservation of momentum, on the electrochemical behavior of the radioelements, and on the expulsion of atomic nuclei and the existence of the neutron. 

French alchemist who, during the Second World War, worked as an assistant to Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, the grandson of Marie... 

Hahnium and JoUotium, named after Otto Hahn and Jean-Frederic Joliot and Mme. Joliot-Curie, were suggested as names for Element 105. The lUPAC in August 1997 finally resolved the issue, naming Element 105 Dubnium with the symbol Db. Dubnium is thought to have prt rties similar to tantalum. 

American physicist Maurice Goldhaber determine the mass of a neutron. Erench physicists Irene and Jean-Erederic Joliot-Gurie achieve artificial radioactivity. Italian-American physicist Enrico Eermi splits the nucleus of the atom. English chemist Walter Norman Haworth synthesizes ascorbic acid (vitamin G). 

Pierre and Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics for their work explaining radioactivity that occurs naturally. Their daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), and Irene s husband, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of radioactivity that can be induced artificially. 

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