Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1980 - 10 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1980 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues six special postage stamps with pictures of important personalities. No special First Day Cover Special cancellation from February 26 to April 25, 1980 10 - pfennig value Frédéric Joliot-Curie (March 19, 1900 to August 14, 1958) Frédéric Joliot-Curie first worked as a graduate engineer at the Ecole de Physique et de chimie industrialist in Paris. In 1924 he became an assistant, in 1925 special adviser for dissection with Marie Curie in the Radium Institute in Paris. In 1934, Frederic Joliot-Curie was appointed Professor of Nuclear Chemistry at the College de France in Paris, and since that time, together with his wife, Iréne Joliot-Curie, has headed the Radium Institute in Paris. In addition, he was from 1932 to 1935 head of research at the French National Science Fund. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Frédéric Joliot-Curie led a research group of the French army and in 1944 became head of the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique. From 1946 to 1950 he was High Commissioner for Atomic Energy in France. Frédéric Joliot-Curie received in 1935, together with his wife Iréne Joliot-Curie, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the joint synthesis of new radioactive elements. Frédéric Joliot-Curie was not only an important French scientist, but also a great patriot and a truly humanist scientist. He was one of the leading members of the French resistance movement against Hitler's fascism during the Second World War, and was President of the World Peace Council from 1950 until his death. Frédéric Joliot-Curie belonged to the today's academy of the sciences of the GDR since 1950 as Corresponding member.