Madame Curie (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eve Curie
- First Published: 1937
- Time of Work: 1867–1934
- Setting: France and Poland
- Principal Characters: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Bronya Dluski, Irène Joliot-Curie, Eve Curie
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Marriage, Science or scientists, Nobel Prizes, Poland or Polish people, Physics or physicists, Chemistry or chemists, Radioactivity
- Locales: France, Poland
Form and Content
Eve Curie’s Madame Curie: A Biography describes the life of her mother, a woman who faced a constant uphill struggle against odds that most people would find overwhelming. The Poland into which Marie Skłodowska was born, in 1867, existed only in the mind of her patriots. In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, the nation of Poland was absorbed into its neighbors, chiefly Russia, and had ceased to exist. Yet the dream of nationhood did not die. The underlying theme of Curie’s discoveries, in addition to the betterment of humankind, became a...
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