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Maria Del Zompo

Again as part of the competition, this year the special jury prize was awarded to Maria Del Zompo, until April 2021, rector of the University of Cagliari with the following motivation: For the tireless and innovative activity carried out for the University of Cagliari, for research, for the dissemination of scientific culture and for gender equality.

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WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI

Ihithe, 1940 – Nairobi, 2011 Kenyan environmentalist and activist. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was

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Torino, 1919 – Milano, 1998 Pediatrician, psychoanalyst, partisan and former deportee from the Nazi concentration camps. Despite being from a Jewish family, he managed to

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Shangai, 1912 – New York, 1997 Chinese physicist, she carried out his research activity mainly in the United States. She participated in the Manhattan project

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EVA MAMELI CALVINO

Sassari, 1886 – Sanremo,1978 Botanist and naturalist, she was the first woman in Italy to obtain a teaching position in botany, in 1915, at the

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WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI

Ihithe, 1940 – Nairobi, 2011

Kenyan environmentalist and activist. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was a Kenyan parliamentarian and Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki, between January 2003 and November 2005.

Wangari Muta Maathai was presented by students Elena Cabras and Bianca Nioteni from the Pacinotti Scientific High School, Cagliari.

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