Word: joliot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curies. Once to fragile, indomitable Mother Marie and her husband Pierre, the late great discoverers of radium. Once to Mother Marie alone. Once to her spitting image and scientific successor Daughter Irène, the violently athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean Frédèric Joliot) of synthetic radioactivity (see cut, p. 29). But never to elegant Daughter Eve whose brilliant biography Madame Curie was a smash seller all over the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just about as articulate, effective, and well-acquainted...