Marie Curie and her daughters
Subtitle: the private lives of science's first family
By: Shelley Emling
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780230115712
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / France; Family; SCIENCE / History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; Women philanthropists; Biography; Women scientists; Mothers and daughters; Women chemists; Family relationships; Women journalists
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: An Absolutely Miserable Year; title: Moving On; title: Meeting Missy; title: Finally, America; title: The White House; title: New and Improved; title: Another Dynamic Duo; title: Turning to America; title: Again; title: Into the Spotlight; title: The End Of A Quest; title: Tributes and New Causes; title: All About Eve; title: The Ravages Of Another World War; title: Rough Waters; title: The Legacy.