Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family

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Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family

Title remainder

the private lives of science's first family

Statement of responsibility

Shelley Emling

Creator

• Emling, Shelley

Subject

• Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
• Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Family
• Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956
• Mothers and daughters
• Curie, Eve, 1904-2007
• Women journalists -- Biography
• Women philanthropists -- Biography
• Women scientists -- Family relationships
• Women chemists -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 540.92/52
• B

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography