Pierre Adrien Joliot-Curie (born 12 March 1932) is a French biologist and researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specialising in photosynthesis.
[2] He was a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister from 1985 to 1986 and is a member of Academia Europæa.
[3] Pierre Joliot held the Chair of Cellular Bioenergetics (1981–2002) at the Collège de France and is now emeritus professor.
His grandparents, Marie and Pierre Curie together with Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their study of radioactivity.
[4] He is married to biologist Anne (née Gricouroff) Joliot-Curie and they have two sons, Marc Joliot (b.