"Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII. As a woman fighting to succeed in a male dominated profession and a Polish immigrant caught in a xenophobic society, she had to find ways to support her research. Drawing on personal interviews with Curie's descendents, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie--and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics"--

Prologue -- An absolutely miserable year -- Moving on -- Meeting Missy -- Finally, America -- The White House -- New and improved -- Another dynamic d uo -- Turning to America--Again -- Into the spotlight -- The end of a quest -- Tributes and new causes -- All about eve -- The ravages of another World War -- Rough waters -- The legacy.