Title

Frederic Joliot, French physicist, c1930. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Frederic Joliot, French physicist, c1930. The apparatus is a Wilson cloud chamber. Joliot (1900-1958) became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925. In 1926 he married Marie's daughter Irene and in 1935 shared with her the Nobel prize for Chemistry for their work on the synthesis of new radioactive elements.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1930

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_262

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,4Mb) / 16,5in x 11,8in / 4939 x 3535 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male job man men discovery country French France science guy occupation scientist chemistry location century profession radioactivity thirties physics radiation B&W MONOCHROME Scientific Instrument black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Nobel Prize Oxford Science Archive cloud chamber Nobel Prize winner Frederic Joliot photograph portrait Unknown Marie Marie Curie Curie Marie Sklodowska Curie Marie Sklodowska Manya Sklodowska Irene Frederic Joliot Frederic Joliot-Curie Jean Frederic Joliot Irene Curie Irene Joliot-Curie Frédéric Joliot-Curie Frédéric Joliot Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Curie Marie Curie Irene Curie photograph portrait