Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Hélène Langevin-Joliot is a French nuclear physicist. She received her doctorate from the Collège de France. She is a professor of nuclear physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the University of Paris and Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. 

She is the granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicists Marie and Pierre Curie and the daughter of Nobel Prize winners Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie.

Related Profiles

Charles Cooper

Chicago, IL

Charles Cooper was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Joseph Howland

Oak Ridge, TN

Joe W. Howland was a medical officer in charge of special problems in the US Army, stationed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Rochester, New York during the Manhattan Project.

William Schneller

Hanford, WA

William Schneller attended Muhlenberg College, graduating in 1942, and then was hired by the DuPont Company.

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

Chicago, IL

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923-2011) was a prominent African American mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project.