02387cam a2200349 4500 138781209 TxAuBib 20130529120000.0 120207s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012005625 9780230115712 hardback 0230115713 hardback TxAuBib Emling, Shelley. Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family / Shelley Emling. First edition. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xx, 219 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. 20130529. Curie, Marie, 1867-1934. Curie, Marie, 1867-1934. Family. Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956. Curie, Eve, 1904-2007. Women scientists Family relationships. Mothers and daughters. Women chemists Biography. Women philanthropists Biography. Women journalists Biography.