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Graphic novel about the “Matilda effect”

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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 […]

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Lise Meitner, Oppenheimer and the Matilda-effect

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Why is Lise Meitner ‘forgotten’ in the Oppenheimer film? The Matilda-effect in 2023 Article and illustration by Ann-Louise Bergström (alb@movingscience.dk) The makers behind this summer’s blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer“, have forgotten – or omitted on purpose – the person, who calculated and formulated the theory behind the atomic fission process (which is the scientific basis for […]