Frederic Curie was born in Paris on March 19, 1900 . He worked at the Radium Institute, as an assistant to Marie Curie, whose daughter Irene he would marry in 1926. Working with his wife, they discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934. By bombarding various elements with alpha particles, they produced radioactive isotopes. This discovery won them the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

Their work later led to Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann’s discovery of uranium fission. In addition, their efforts determined the number of