Joliot-Curie n 1: French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) [syn: {Irene Joliot-Curie}] 2: 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) [syn: {Joliot}, {Jean-Frederic Joliot}, {Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie}]