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

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 importan...

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Main Author: Emling, Shelley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012,2012.
Edition:First edition.
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