| Description |
xx, 219 pages : illustrations ; 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-214) and index. |
| 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. |
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Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
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Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Family.
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Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956.
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Curie, Eve, 1904-2007.
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Women scientists -- Family relationships.
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Mothers and daughters.
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Women chemists -- Biography.
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Women philanthropists -- Biography.
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Women journalists -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780230115712 (hardback) |
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