Pierre Joliot


Pierre Adrien Joliot-Curie is a French biologist and researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research, 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. He was a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister from 1985 to 1986 and is a member of Academia Europæa. He was made a commander of the Ordre National du Mérite in 1982 and of the Légion d'honneur in 1984.
Pierre Joliot held the Chair of Cellular Bioenergetics at the Collège de France 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'.
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Family

Joliot comes from the Curie family science dynasty. His grandparents, Marie and Pierre Curie together with Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their study of radioactivity. Marie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Joliot's parents, Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 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 Joliot-Curie and they have two sons, Marc Joliot and Alain Joliot.