Portraits of three women with dazzling and complex stories, whose courage, intelligence, and determination changed the history of the world.

Think you know all about the Curies? Think again! Though the talents of Marie Curie, physicist, chemist, and two-time Nobel Prize winner are forever graven in our memory, the adventurous lives of her daughters Irene and Eve can still inspire us today. Their mother, fought against great odds and revolutionized medicine as well as research on radioactivity alongside her husband, Pierre Curie, leading the pair to a Nobel Prize. Even after Pierre’s sudden death, Marie continued to provide her daughters with the education to lead them to a great destiny.