French physicist and chemist Frédéric Joliot-Curie was born #OTD in 1900.
He was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity in 1934.
He served as the first High Commissioner for Atomic Energy in France after World War II and played a significant role in the development of France's nuclear program.
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