- 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.
- She wrote a best-selling biography of her mother, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Marie Curie. The book was the basis of the 1943 film "Madame Curie".
- Was of Polish and French descent.
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