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