Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
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New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Book
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xx, 219 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Meadville Public Library
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New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Street Date
1208.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 dominatedprofession 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"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Emling, S. (2012). Marie Curie and her daughters: the private lives of science's first family . Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Emling, Shelley. 2012. Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family. Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Emling, Shelley. Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Emling, Shelley. Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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