If you are working or studying within the bioscience field, you have probably at some time worked with the HeLa-cell line. Then you probably know that the name “HeLa” is an acronym for “Henrietta Lacks” as the cells origin from a woman with this name. But I am guessing that for most, that’s where the […]
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 […]
I’ve written – and drawn – a graphic history about some of the women in the history of science, who were forgotten. The book is in Danish only (so far) and bears the title “Matilda-effekten”. The Matilda effect was coined by the american historian Margaret Rossiter and she choose the name Matilda after Matilda Roslyn […]
I am working on a book – a graphic novel / history about the Matilda effect (the systematic devaluation of female scientists). The book is centered around four scientists; two danish and two american, who all worked with polio and made significant contributions both to the general knowledge about the disease – and to the […]