Eugenie Knitting machine

Eugenie Knitting machine , born the October 13rd 1881 with Soubise (Charente-Maritime), deceased the June 16th 1967, is a scientist Frenchwoman and militant a progressist.

Scientific career

It integrates the National university of Sevres in 1901, where it meets Pierre Curie and Marie Curie and Paul Langevin. Incorporated physical sciences in 1904, she teaches with the college of Poitiers then directs the National university of young girls where she had, as from this moment and for long years, a very great activity scientific.

In 1913, it marries Aimé Cotton, professor with the Faculty of Science of Paris and at the National university of Saint-Cloud and of which it has 3 children. Become then director of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of Sevres, it there high the level of the teaching of sciences and develops the laboratory and research to with it.

Militant engagement

Fellow traveller of the French Communist party, it brings his assistance to the German antifascists taken refuge in France since 1933, then with Spanish tracked by the general Franco. During the Second world war, the constrained Vichy government Eugenie Knitting machine to leave her station of the National university by a departure with the retirement forced in 1941. On his side, her husband is stopped twice by the Gestapo.

In 1944, it particpe with the foundation of the Union of the French women and becomes president of the international democratic Fédération of the women to her creation in 1945. It was also member (vice-president) World council of peace, developing to with it an important activity until its death. It receives the Prix Stalin international for peace in 1950.

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