Pierre Joliot
Pierre Joliot (born March 12, 1932 in Paris ) is a French biochemist .
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Joliot comes from a famous family of scientists, his father is Frédéric Joliot-Curie , his mother Irène Joliot-Curie , the daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie . His older sister Hélène Langevin-Joliot (* 1927) is a nuclear physicist .
Joliot has been researching at CNRS since 1956 , since 1974 as Research Director. From 1981 until his retirement in 2002 he was professor for cellular bioenergetics at the Collège de France . He taught at the École normal supérieure , where he headed the Faculty of Biology from 1987 to 1992. He was then chairman of the scientific council ( Conseil Scientifique ) of the École normal supérieure de Lyon .
Among other things, he dealt with the mechanism of photosynthesis .
Honors
In 1980 Joliot received the Prix du Commissariat à l´énergie atomique and in 1982 the gold medal of the CNRS . He is a member of the French Académie des Sciences , the US National Academy of Sciences (1979) and the Academia Europaea . He was also appointed commander of the French Legion of Honor .
Fonts
- La Recherche Passionément , Odile Jacob, 2001, ISBN 2-7381-0940-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ French biography , evene.fr, accessed on February 13 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joliot, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |