Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after his parents-in-law, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of four Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935, announced November 14, 1935. Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie, “in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”. Frédéric Joliot: born 1900, Paris, France. Irène Joliot-Curie: born 1897, Paris, France. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).