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joliot-curie

noun /ʒɔljoʊkjRi/ 3 syllables 12 letters Scrabble 20 WWF 25
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noun

French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)

noun

French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)

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