Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family / Shelley Emling.

First edition.

9780230115712
0230115713

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, August 2012.

English

xx, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

QD22.C8 E46 2012

540.92/52 B

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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