Word: joliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time France had a Cabinet including women, of which for good measure cultured, bookish, music-loving Premier Blum had included three: Madame the Undersecretary for Scientific Research Irene Curie-Joliot, daughter of the discoverers of radium; Madame the Undersecretary for National Education Cecile Kahn Brunschwig, longtime French feminist; and Madame the Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore, a onetime village librarian who of late has been outstanding in French child welfare leagues. Under French law these ladies have no vote and, should one have occasion to sign a check while in office, her husband must countersign it to make...
Four years ago, when Marie Curie was still alive, her old heart was proud that her shy young daughter and her brilliant young son-in-law were showing themselves to be able and devoted scientists. In the Curie Laboratory of Paris' Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium. Strange rays hopped out of the beryllium. Fed into paraffin, the rays knocked out protons (hydrogen nuclei) at dizzy speeds of one-tenth the velocity of light. What were the strange rays...
...Millikan had reserved his remarks for an appropriate occasion, the International Conference on Physics. The roster of those assembled was studded with names famed the world over. Present and greeted with stormy applause were quiet, brilliant Jean Frédéric Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot, son-in-law and daughter of the late Marie Sklodowska Curie. A vast and totally unforeseen field of research was opened last year when the Curie-Joliots discovered the phenomenon of artificial radioactivity. The young couple obtained a continued emission of positrons from boron, magnesium and aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha...
...Curie-Joliot elements were all briefly radioactive, and all quickly returned to their original bases. The Curie-Joliot work proved that theorists have a pretty accurate understanding of how the atom works. By-&-by an engineer may use the information to make a steam engine run more efficiently. Metallurgists may make better kinds of stainless steel. Physiologists may prevent rickets and tooth decay, treat cancer...
...great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie...