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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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Redazione 14 November 2023
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LUCIANA NISSIM MOMIGLIANO

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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Redazione 13 November 2023
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CHIEN-SHIUNG WU

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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adminFSC 12 November 2023
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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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Redazione 11 November 2023
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MARYAM MIRZAKHANI

Teheran, 1977 – Stanford, 2017 Iranian mathematician, she has mainly carried out research in the field of geometry. Professor of mathematics at Stanford University since

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Redazione 10 November 2023

WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI

14 November 2023
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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