Marie Curie and Her Daughters : The Private Lives of Science's First Family

from banjo123

I read Eve Curie's biography of her mother back when I was a teenager, and was fascinated by it. Curie had such an interesting life on multiple levels; personally, politically and professionally. (The first woman to win a Nobel prize, she won Nobel prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Her older ...

from zzshupinga

Review copy provided by LibraryThing In this short, but fascinating book, Shelley Emling tells the story of one of the most renowned science families, Marie Curie and her daughters. Often portrayed as an introvert or subservient to her husband Pierre Curie, Emling shows that Marie was a power to ...

from mykl-s

Shelley Emling widens my knowledge of Marie Curie, of her two daughters, and their effect on science and culture and politics in the twentieth century. This book is not as much of a science book as I had hoped, and I don't read enough biography to judge how well it is written from that standpoint...

from mabith

This is a wonderful book, picking up a part of Curie's life that isn't usually paid much attention - both in terms of tracking her scientific pursuits after her second Nobel prize, and in terms of her relationship with her children. She's such an interesting person, for a lot of reasons, and her ...

from MarysGirl

I enjoyed this biography. There isn't much written about Curie's later life or her relationship with her daughters. This book fills the gaps. I was totally unaware that her oldest daughter and granddaughter followed in her footsteps as well-known and important scientists. If not for WWII, Irene C...