Marie Curie book

This month's Wigton Library Book Club has been "Marie Curie and her Daughters" by Shelley Emling. It deals with the second half of Marie Curie's life, starting on 1911 with her second Nobel Prize for Physics. It was written by an American author and deals therefore with the American angle on the Curie family story. I did once see a documentary about this - about how a friendship with an American journalist led to American charity donations funding Marie Curie's research institute. One thing that I really admire about Marie Curie is that she believed obstinately in research being made freely available so she never patented her work. The other thing I took from the book is that I have long neglected the work of her daughter and son-in-law who were awarded the Nobel Prize as well for discovering artificial radioactivity - when bombarding an unradioactive element makes it then become radioactive.