Title: Marie Curie and her daughters
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"--
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / France, Family, SCIENCE / History, Mothers and daughters, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Women philanthropists, Women scientists, Women journalists, Women chemists, Family relationships, Biography, Curie, marie, 1867-1934, Curie, irene, 1897-1958, Chemists, Women, france, SCIENCE, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Science & Technology, France, Families, Philanthropists, Women, biography
People: Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), Marie Curie (1867-1934), Eve Curie (1904-2007)