Frédéric Joliot-Curie
France was one of the nuclear pioneers, going back to the work of Marie Skłodowska Curie and Henri Becquerel. Curie's last assistant Bertrand Goldschmidt became the father of the French nuclear weapons program. French Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, told the "New York Herald Tribune" that the 1945 "Report on atomic Energy for Military Purposes" wrongfully omitted the contributions of French scientists.