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France and Fission

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Radioactive Romance
Elegant Experiments
A Is for Atom
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Quick Fact:
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. In late 1938, nuclear fission was discovered. These discoveries proved key to the development of the atomic bomb.