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- Birth nameEve Denise Curie
- Ève Curie was born on December 6, 1904 in Paris, France. She was a writer, known for Madame Curie (1943), Brains Can Be Beautiful (1947) and Land of My Mother (1943). She was married to Henry Richardson Labouisse. She died on October 22, 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseHenry Richardson Labouisse(1954 - March 25, 1987) (his death)
- Daughter of Nobel Prize winning scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.
- During her very long life, she was a concert pianist, journalist, and author, and after her late-life marriage to a United Nations diplomat, worked for UNICEF during her husband's tenure as its executive director.
- The only member of her immediate family (father Pierre, mother Marie, sister Irene and brother-in-law Frederic Joliot) not involved in the sciences. Her interests were in music and the arts.
- Survived by one stepdaughter, four step-grandchildren, and seven step-great-grand-children.
- She was a staunch public supporter of the Free French cause after the Nazis occupied France in 1940.
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