What a Disappointment She Must Have Been to Her Parents

[beamjockey]

Eve Curie has passed away at the age of 102.

The saddest sentence in the obituary:

As her interests were musical and literary rather than scientific, Eve Curie was the only member of her family who did not win a Nobel Prize.

Comments

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

One had the impression that Marie viewed Eve as "the different" one. Eve was much more outgoing than her mother or her sister, so she handled public appearances in place of her mother, particularly when they toured the States in the '20s. Eve was also a concert pianist.