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Title Marie Curie and her daughters [electronic resource eBook] : the private lives of science's first family / Shelley Emling.
Publisher New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Description 1 online resource.
Edition First edition.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: OverDrive Read.
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Other edition Original 9780230115712
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Family.
Joliot-Curie, IrĂ¡ene, 1897-1956.
Curie, Eve, 1904-2007.
Women scientists -- Family relationships.
Mothers and daughters.
Women chemists -- Biography.
Women philanthropists -- Biography.
Women journalists -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9781137102614
STANDARD # 9F0BB4F5-37E4-4CC5-9E56-007E7B6B796F OverDrive