Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
Shelley Emling (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2013
First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition View all formats and editions
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2013
Biographies
xx, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781137278364, 1137278366
862245249
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
Originally published: 2012