On Dec 10th – the day of the Nobel prize dinner in Stockholm – I gave a lecture about the “Matilda effect”, based on my book with the same title. The lecture was arranged by “Folkeuniversitetet” and was based on the University of Copenhagen. The book is a graphic novel and follows four (partially) forgotten women, who all worked as virus resarchers; two Danish (Herdis von Magnus and Ebba Lund) and two american (Isabel Morgan and Dorothy Horstmann). They all contributed significantly to the understanding of the virus-disease polio. Their findings also formed the basis for development of two different, efficient and safe vaccines against the disease.
The book can be ordered on the publisher’s website (FADL’s forlag).
