Following her mother�s death, Eve wrote a gracious biography about her mother. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for war correspondence, and later served as the �first lady� of UNICEF, where in 1965 she accompanied her husband to the stage where, as executive director of UNICEF, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organization.

Wikimedia Commons (Right).ĭaughter Eve�s interests leaned toward art and writing. Iréne Joliot-Curie and Jean Frédéric Joliot. And that only touches upon the couple�s scientific and humanitarian accomplishments. Years later, Irene and Frédéric Curie-Joliot would receive their own Nobel prizes for their research on radioactivity. There she would meet her husband-to-be, Frédéric Joliot. After the war she completed graduate studies while working with her mother at the Radium Institute, now the Curie Institute. During World War I, at age seventeen, the young woman helped her mother set up field X-ray equipment to aid wounded soldiers, an activity for which she would later receive military honors. Irene followed in her mother�s footsteps. She also made sure the girls remained healthy and engaged in all manner of physical activity, from hiking to acrobatics.Īnd her recipe worked. At one point, she joined a group of distinguished scholars that took turns teaching lessons in their own areas of expertise. Marie wasn�t happy with the schooling in Paris at the time, and spent time homeschooling the girls. Portrait of Marie Curie and her daughters, 1908. This left Marie to raise the girls without a father. Pierre died tragically shortly after Eve was born, run over by a horse drawn carriage on a wet, slippery street. Irene, the oldest, was born in 1897 two years after Pierre and Marie married. Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory. But Madame Curie was more than just an eminent scientist. Actually, she won two Nobel prizes: the first with Pierre, and the second on her own a decade later. She won a Nobel prize together with her husband Pierre for their efforts. We�re all familiar with the name Marie Curie and her pioneering work on radioactivity at the turn of the twentieth century. The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

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