Marie Curie

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide

Pierre Curie died in 1906, leaving Marie Curie to support their two daughters with her work in science, both research work and teaching. Ève Curie, born in 1904, was the younger of the two daughters; a later child was born premature and died.

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (1904 - 2007) was a writer and journalist, as well as a pianist. Neither she nor her husband were scientists, but her huaband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., accepted the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF.