Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Finder came from an affluent Jewish shopkeeping family in Bielitz, where he was educated. He briefly flirted with Zionism while still at school and visited Palestine. He studied chemistry in Vienna, Mulhouse and Paris. A chemical engineer, he was a researcher at the "Conservatoire national des arts et métiers" and was an assistant to Frédéric Joliot-Curie.