Marie Curie and Her Daughters

<p> Emling offers an intimate look at Curie's relationship with her children...[and a] fascinating, moving story... [with an] inspiring message conveyed throughout. --Carmela Ciuraru, The Boston Globe <p> The story of the second act of the genius's life, as a widowed mother of two. -- Harpers <p> Emling delivers a compulsively readable biography of Curie and her formidable daughters. -- Ms. magazine<p> The often harrowing tale covers the great physicist's struggle with xenophobia and sexism, her mental and physical breakdowns, and the campaign by American journalist Missy Meloney to supply her with radium.<br>Most compellingly, it bares Curie's relationships with her daughters, the Nobel prize-winning chemist Irene and writer Eve. -- Nature <p> Emling reveals a hidden side of the life of two-time Nobel Prize winner. -- Publishers Weekly <p> An intimate portrait of the professional and private lives of legendary scientist Marie Curie and her daughters, Irene and Eve... A uniquely human look at a brilliant scientific family. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> A new twist...bringing the story into the 21st century...Recommended. --- Choice <p> Shelley Emling makes an invaluable contribution to history by documenting the afteraffects of radiation and fame on this remarkable pioneer of the atom, a woman who sacrificed herself for the sake of deadly knowledge. --Tom Zoellner, author of Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World <p> Publicly glum and famously determined, Marie Curie struggled against the extraordinary prejudices of her time, and became an icon. In this engagingly delightful look behind the heavy skirts of the era, Shelley Emling reveals Marie's and her two disparate daughters' idiosyncratic family life, and especially the significant role that their visits to the United States played in their personal development. --Peter Atkins, author of Galileo's Finger <p> Marie Curie and Her Daughters breathes life into an icon of science. Emling uses priv