WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Joliot-Curie
    n 1: French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new
         chemical elements (1897-1956) [syn: Joliot-Curie, Irene
         Joliot-Curie]
    2: French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and
       who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking
       the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to
       synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958) [syn:
       Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot, Joliot-Curie, Jean-
       Frederic Joliot-Curie]