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Died. Frederic Joliot-Curie, 58, atomic physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1935, member of the French Communist Party's Central Committee, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize in 1950; following surgery for an internal hemorrhage; in Paris. Marrying Irene Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Frederic Joliot added their name to his own. With his physicist wife, who died of leukemia in 1956, he won the Nobel for discovering that radioactivity could be produced in the laboratory in elements which were not naturally radioactive. This first opened the possibility of widespread use of radioactivity...
Died. Irene Joliot-Curie, 58, famed fellow-traveling French physicist, elder daughter of the late great discoverers of radium, Marie and Pierre Curie, winner (with her husband, Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935) for their discovery of artificial radioactivity; of leukemia, from handling radioactive materials; in the Curie Hospital, Paris...
...Britain's philosophizing Bertrand Russell, after one of his end-of-the-world radio speeches about nuclear warfare last winter, came a glowing fan letter from French Physicist Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Recalls Russell: "I was particularly appreciative of getting a letter from him because of the fact that he is a noted Communist. One of my principal purposes was ... to unite men of science." An idea popped into Russell's head: Why should not the leading scientists of East and West join in a statement that would warn the world about the disastrous...
Married. Eve Denise Curie, 49, French journalist, lecturer and author (most notably of Madame Curie, bestselling biography of her famed scientist mother, Marie Curie), postwar (1945-49) publisher of the influential anti-Communist French daily Paris Presse, sister of Communist Party-lining, Nobel-Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; and Henry Richardson Labouisse, 50, United Nations official; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irene Joliot-Curie, whose ardent fellow traveling got her kicked off France's Atomic Energy Commission in 1951, was denied membership in the American Chemical Society, which bluntly branded her "an avowed and active...