Book
Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
xx, 219 p. [8] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Summary
"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"--
Contents
- 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.