Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun joliot-curie

2 senses of joliot-curie

Sense 1
Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie -- (French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2
Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)