Music became the subject in which young Eve first excelled from a young age. She watched with great interest as each of the girls developed interests and skills in diverse areas. With the aid of governesses, she created lessons encouraged to stimulate both of her daughters' Eugène Curie provided support to her and her young daughters until his death in 1910.įorced to raise her children alone, and determined to continue the work she had begun with husband, Pierre, Marie Curie also wished to spare her children some of the difficulties and fears she had been subject to as a child growing up in Poland. Eve's mother lost her partner in marriage as well as science, and could never bear to talk of Pierre to her daughters after his death. Pierre Curie died instantly in an accident on Apwhen he was pulled under the wheels of a carriage while attempting to cross a Paris street his cranium was crushed by the force. The younger Curie barely knew her father she was less than two years old when he was tragically killed. She had one older sister, Irène, who shared her parents' scientific bent. Raised Alone by Marie CurieĬurie was born in Paris, France on December 6, 1904. During the 1950s and 1960s, Curie worked for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and for the United Nations' Childrens' Fund in Greece. Later she would turn her talents to writing, lecturing, and international advocacy on behalf of Free France during World War II. Encouraged by her mother, Curie developed her early skill in music, and her first career was as a concert pianist. The youngest child born to Pierre and Marie (Sklodowska) Curie, discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize recipients, Eve Curie's interests and talents were more musical, literary, and political than scientific. The daughter of Nobel award-winning scientist Madame Curie, Eve Curie (born 1904) would gain fame on her own terms: as a concert pianist and journalist during World War II.
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