Marie Curie and her daughters

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"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"--

subjects: HISTORY / Europe / France,  Family,  SCIENCE / History,  Mothers and daughters,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology,  Women philanthropists,  Women scientists,  Women journalists,  Women chemists,  Family relationships,  Biography,  Curie, marie, 1867-1934,  Curie, irene, 1897-1958,  Chemists,  Women, france,  SCIENCE,  History,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Science & Technology,  France,  Families,  Philanthropists,  Women, biography

People: Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956),  Marie Curie (1867-1934),  Eve Curie (1904-2007)