Frédéric Joliot-Curie Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958), born "Jean Frédéric Joliot", was a French physicist, husband of Irène Joliot-Curie with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Paris, France, he was a graduate of the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. In 1925 he became an assistant to Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute. He fell in love with her daughter Irène Curie, and soon after their marriage in 1926 they both changed their surnames to Joliot-Curie. At the insistence of Marie,
Marie Curie of biographies are devoted to her. In 1938 her daughter, Ève Curie, published "Madame Curie". In 1987 Françoise Giroud wrote "Marie Curie: A Life". In 2005 Barbara Goldsmith wrote "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie". In 2011 Lauren Redniss published "Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout". Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon starred in the 1943 U.S. Oscar-nominated film, "Madame Curie", based on her life. More recently, in 1997, a French film about Pierre and Marie Curie was released, "Les Palmes de M. Schutz". It was adapted from a play of the same name.