Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
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Frédéric Joliot
Prize share: 1/2
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Irène Joliot-Curie
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 was awarded jointly to Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
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