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 […]
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 […]
Last year, I was so lucky to get into the mentorship promgram by Women in Tech in Denmark. My skilled mentor was Signe Hjort Hansen. Read the LinkedIn post from Women in Tech about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/women-in-tech-dk_womentor-mentorprogram-womenintechdk-activity-6879404993456214016-di66
Another* forgotten and overlooked, brilliant female scientist from the 20th Century: Marie Hammer (1907-2002) was a Danish zoologist, who – by her extensive collections and studies of microscopic tics named Oribatides and Collemboles – finally confirmed the theory of continental drift, formulated by Alfred Wegner in the early 20th century . The theory of continental […]
Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and mathematician, who discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core. She did this through studies and calculations of the spreading of seismologic earthquake waves. She was an amazing woman, but despite her extraordinary talent and great findings, she is almost unknown in Denmark. First after she (in […]