The author Eve Curie Labouisse at her typewriter in 1961.
Posted on 10/25/2007 8:29:29 AM PDT by Borges
Eve Curie Labouisse, a journalist and humanitarian best known for her biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died on Monday at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 102.
Mrs. Labouisse’s stepdaughter, Anne L. Peretz, confirmed the death.
Published in 1937, “Madame Curie” chronicled the life of Marie Curie, who earned the Nobel Prize twice, first in physics in 1903 (the award was shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel) and again in chemistry in 1911.
Mrs. Labouisse’s admiring portrait followed her mother (née Marya Sklodowska) from her birth and girlhood in Poland through her education in France and her discovery, with her husband, of the radioactive elements radium and polonium. The book quickly became a best seller and in 1943 was made into a Hollywood film, starring Greer Garson as Marie and Walter Pidgeon as Pierre.
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She was no spring chicken even back then.
She outlived her father by 101 years!
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