Madam Curie; by Eve Curie.

Superlatives fail to describe this story of a woman driven by her thirst for knowledge, her driving herself hard to discover secrets of universe, her good fortune in meeting someone able to see her worth and love her for herself and join in her quest realising her work was worth, the tireless hard labour of years and trials and tribulations before success sparkles in the radium achieved in the laboratory at night, and the recognition that comes in time.

Nobel prizes are valued and rightly, too; Nobel prize winners in science fill a hall of fame - but it is noteworthy that this family has five Nobel prizes between four members including a son in law, and Marie Curie received it twice. The biography is written simply and beautifully by the other daughter. For this we ought to be grateful to her.