Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family by Shelley Emling (Author). Specializing in the primary household in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships along with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary scientist to us in a fresh way.
Although the common picture is that of a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, highly praised science writer Shelley Emling exhibits how Marie Curie was nothing in need of an iconoclast. Her affair with a youthful and married man drew the enmity of a xenophobic French institution, who denied her entry to the Academy of Sciences and tried to expel her from France. However she was determined to stay life how she saw fit, and passed on her resilience to her daughters. Emling draws on private letters released by Curie’s only granddaughter to indicate how Marie influenced her daughters but allow them to blaze their own paths. Irene adopted her mom’s footsteps into science and was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. Eve traveled the world as a foreign correspondent and then moved on to humanitarian missions.
Emling additionally reveals how Curie, following World Warfare I, turned to America for help. Few individuals know about Curie’s close friendship with American journalist Missy Meloney, who arranged speaking tours throughout the nation for Marie and Eve and Irene. Months on the street, charming audiences both large and small, endeared the Curies to American girls and established a lifelong relationship with the United States that shaped one of many strongest connections of Marie’s life. Without the monetary help of American women, Marie isn't being in a position to go on with her research.
Continuing the household story into the third era, Emling additionally interviews Marie Curie’s granddaughter Helene Joliot-Curie, who's a completed physicist in her own right. She reveals why her grandmother was much more than just a scientist and how Marie’s journeys to America perpetually changed her. Factually wealthy, private and unique, that is an engrossing story about the most famous girl in science that rips the quilt off the parable and divulges the real person, buddy, and mom behind it.
I enjoyed this e-book very much.
Such a sensible household and complicated one too. She opened doors in time for others in her generation.
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Shelley Emling (Author)
256 pages
Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition (August 21, 2012)
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