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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2012,2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : America: a fresh point of departure for the world's greatest scientist
- 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.