Marie Curie and her Daughters : : the Private Lives of Science's First Family
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Prologue -- An Absolutely Miserable Year -- Moving On -- Meeting Missy -- Finally, America -- The White House -- New and Improved -- Another Dynamic Duo -- Turning to America--Again -- Into the Spotlight -- The End Of A Quest -- Tributes and New Causes -- All About Eve -- The Ravages Of Another World War -- Rough Waters -- The Legacy.
"Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII. As a woman fighting to succeed in a male dominated profession and a Polish immigrant caught in a xenophobic society, she had to find ways to support her research. Drawing on personal interviews with Curie's descendents, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie--and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xx, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780230115712
SUBJECTS
Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934.
Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934 -- Family.
Joliot-Curie, Irène, -- 1897-1956.
Curie, Eve, -- 1904-2007.
Women scientists -- Family relationships.
Mothers and daughters.
Women chemists -- Biography.
Women philanthropists -- Biography.
Women journalists -- Biography.