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Jo•liot-Cu•rie

Pronunciation: (zhô-lyō'ky-rē'), [key]
—n.
1. I•rène Pronunciation: (ē-ren'), [key] (Irène Curie), 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel prize for chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
2. her husband,(Jean) Fré•dé•ric Pronunciation: (zhän frā-dā-rēk'), [key] (Jean Frédéric Joliot), 1900–58, French nuclear physicist: Nobel prize for chemistry 1935.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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