TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emling,Shelley
TI  - Marie Curie and her daughters: the private lives of science's first family 
SN  - 0230115713 (hardback)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Curie, Eve,
KW  - Curie, Marie,
KW  - Joliot-Curie, Irène,
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Women chemists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women journalists
KW  - Women philanthropists
KW  - Women scientists
KW  - Family relationships
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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 descendants, 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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