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Hildegard von Bingen

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Women have always struggled to be allowed to take a part of science and intellectual work. One of those who fought for this – with succes – was Hildegard von Bingen, a medieval nun. She has been called one of the most influental women from the middle ages, which otherwise was a period where women […]

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An overseen physicist: Chien-Shiung Wu

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Chien-Shiung Wu has been called “The first lady of physics”, “The Chinese Marie Curie” and “The queen of nuclear physics”, but incredibly enough, she is to most rather unknown. She has contributed with crucial discoveries in nuclear- and quantum physics and also contributed to the Manhattan-project. But she is, like the physician Lise Meitner, written […]