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Jean Frdric JoliotCurie , born Jean Frdric Joliot, was a French physicist, husband of Irne JoliotCurie and Nobel laureate.

Frdric and Irne hyphenated their surnames to JoliotCurie after they married on October 4, 1926 in Paris, France, although their daughter, Hlne LangevinJoliot has said, Many people used to name my parents JoliotCurie, but they signed their scientific papers Irne Curie and Frdric Joliot. Their daughter Hlne, who would also become a noted physicist, was born in 1927. Their son, Pierre, a biologist, was born in 1932. Frdric JoliotCurie devoted the last years of his life to the creation of a centre for nuclear physics at Orsay, where his children were educated.

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