WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
    n 1: 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]