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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Jean Frederic JOLIOT-CURIE: French / Irene JOLIOT-CURIE: French. Joint winners of...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3686
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This record is about the Jean Frederic JOLIOT-CURIE: French / Irene JOLIOT-CURIE: French. Joint winners of... dating from 1937 Jan 19 - 1950 May 19 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/3686
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1937 Jan 19 - 1950 May 19
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Description (What the record is about)
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Jean Frederic JOLIOT-CURIE: French / Irene JOLIOT-CURIE: French. Joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935, the JOLIOT-CURIEs were communists from the late 1930s. In 1937 Frederic was organising armaments for the Spanish Government during the Civil War before joining the French party in 1944; and in 1938 Irene, daughter of Pierre and Marie CURIE, was a member of a communist anti-war committee in France. Frederic was later the head of the French atomic energy programme until dismissed in 1950 following his speech to the Communist Party Congress. Irene was dropped from the Atomic Commission the following year
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- With photograph
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 91541 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2012
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- Open Document, Open Description
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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