Pierre Adrien Joliot-Curie (born 12 March 1932) is a French

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and researcher for the

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, specialising in photosynthesis. A researcher there since 1956, he became a Director of Research in 1974 and a member of their scientific council in 1992.Google translation
/ref> He was a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister from 1985 to 1986 and is a member of

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. He was made a commander of the

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(''English: the National Order of Merit'') in 1982 and of the

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(''English: Legion of Honor'') in 1984.Google translation
/ref> Pierre Joliot held the Chair of Cellular Bioenergetics (1981–2002) at the

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and is now emeritus professor. He is also a member of the Academy of Science of France. In 2002, he published a work about his views on the research system, 'La Recherche Passionnément' (''English: Research Passionately'').

Family

Joliot comes from the Curie family science dynasty. His grandparents, Marie and

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( ; ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, Radiochemistry, radiochemist, and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, ...

together with

Henri Becquerel Antoine Henri Becquerel ( ; ; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French nuclear physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. Biography Family and education Becq ...

won the

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in 1903 for their study of radioactivity. Marie also won the Nobel Prize in

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in 1911. Joliot's parents,

Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (; ; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were ...

and

Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; ; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) 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 t ...

, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity. His sister, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, is a noted nuclear physicist. He is married to biologist Anne (née Gricouroff) Joliot-Curie and they have two sons, Marc Joliot (b. 1962) and Alain Joliot (b. 1964).

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