Eugénie Cotton

Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 – 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation.[1] She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961. She married fellow scientist Aimé Cotton in 1913.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.