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Shelley Emling

Marie Curie and Her Daughters

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A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters

Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way.
Although the common image is that of a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, highly praised science writer Shelley Emling shows how Marie Curie was nothing short of an iconoclast. Her affair with a younger and married man drew the enmity of a xenophobic French establishment, who denied her entry to the Academy of Sciences and tried to expel her from France. But she was determined to live life how she saw fit, and passed on her resilience to her daughters. Emling draws on personal letters released by Curie's only granddaughter to show how Marie influenced her daughters yet let them blaze their own paths. Irene followed her mother's footsteps into…
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2012
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2012
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  • Катя Орловацитирует6 лет назад
    Earlier that year, an astute Irene had written her mother, “I’ve noticed that every day or almost every day an English minister just misses being killed by the English suffragettes, but it seems to me that that isn’t a very brilliant way for the suffragettes to prove that they are capable of voting.”

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