Eve Curie

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Eve Denise Curie Labouisse (born December 6, 1904 in Paris) is a U.S. (French-born) author and writer. She is the second daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and has written an acclaimed biography of her mother, "Madame Curie." After the defeat of France in 1940, Eve Curie moved to England and worked for the Allied and Free French causes during the rest of the war. In 1945 Eve Curie published "Journey Among Warriors," a chronicle of her travel to the fronts of World War II. She was appointed Special Adviser to the Secretary General of NATO in 1952 and served on NATO's International Staff until she and Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. were married in 1954. Mr. Labouisse served for fifteen years as Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).