During my walk on Friday, I noticed a street named r. de Eugenie Cotton. Underneath it said she was a physicist and a women's rights activist. I was curious about her so went to that number one research tool: Google! I couldn't find out a lot but here's what I did find.
She was a student of Marie Curie, and wrote a book about Marie and her husband Pierre: Les Curie. Under a description of the author, it says she is a physicist who has been an active participant in the international women's democratic movement.
International Stalin Peace Prize 1951: France's Madame EUGENIE COTTON, 69, Communist fellow traveler, physicist, president of the Communist-sponsored Women's International Democratic Federation, delegate at Red peace rallies in New York and Europe.
Photo of Soong Ching Ling meeting with Mme. Eugenie Cotton, chairman of the International Democratic Women's Federation, vice chairman of the World Peace Council and chairman of the Women's Federation of France, at her Shanghai residence on May 5, 1955.
It looks like she had a sister, Aimee, also a scientist. There are a number of schools, streets and laboratories in France named for one or the other of them. Eugenie died in 1967, the year I first came to France. It would be nice to find out more.
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