Joliot-Curie centenary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous French nuclear physicist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958). With his wife Irène, the daughter of Pierre and Eve Curie,
he discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934. In the following year, the husband-and-wife team
were awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize. At the anniversary event, a commemorative
plaque was unveiled outside the famous Institut du Radium in Paris. Seen here by the plaque
are the Joliot-Curies' son Pierre Joliot-Curie and daughter Heléne
Langevin-Joliot, themselves both distinguished scientists.