Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie's fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, IrĆØne and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie. Biographer Denis Brian digs deep beneath the headlines and legends to reveal the Curies' multigenerational saga in its entirety, featuring new, never-before-published personal information as well as newly revealed correspondence and diary excerpts. Brimming with endearing and often amusing anecdotes about this much-misunderstood clan, The Curies reveals a family as closely intertwined in their private lives as they were in their professional endeavors.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Pierre Curie
- 2 Marie Salomea Sklodowska
- 3 Pierre and Marie in Love
- 4 Mutual Adoration
- 5 Spirits, Radioactivity, and the Price of Fame
- 6 Psychic Researchers
- 7 Pierre Curieās Last Day
- 8 Rescuing Langevin from His Wife
- 9 Battered by the Press
- 10 Surgery and Suffragettes
- 11 āLittle Curiesā and World War I
- 12 A Gift of Radium from the United States
- 13 Radium: Miracle Cure or Menace?
- 14 A Great Discoveryāat Last
- 15 Marie Curieās Last Year
- 16 Nobel Prizes, Spanish Civil War, and Fission
- 17 France Defeated
- 18 Joliot Keeps the Gestapo GuessingāEve Curie Tours the Battlefronts
- 19 Joliot Becomes a CommunistāEve Curie Interviews Nehru, Gandhi, and Jinnah
- 20 The Battle for Paris
- 21 Joliotās Fight for Peace and Communism
- 22 Joliot Launches Peace Offensive and Charges the United States with Using Germ Warfare in Korea
- 23 The Curie Legacy
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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