Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

Frédéric Joliot

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Prize share: 1/2

Irène Joliot-Curie

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 was awarded jointly to Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"

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