Lise Meitner

The double challenge: being a female scientist and being a scientist woman.

Nereide Rudas

Medicine as a utopia: relationship, liberation, vision.

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.

FAKE SCIENCE: HOW TO INTERCEPT FAKE NEWS

A training course for journalists dedicated to scientific fake news as an appendix of the Cagliari FestivalScienza and on the occasion of the awarding of the 2023 “Woman of Science” Award. “FAKE SCIENCE: HOW TO INTERCEPT FAKE NEWS” is the title of the training course designed as a mini conference to be held Wednesday 15 […]

LUCIANA NISSIM MOMIGLIANO

[Turin, 1919 – Milan, 1998] Pediatrician, psychoanalyst, partisan and former deportee from Nazi concentration camps. Despite being from a Jewish family, he managed to graduate in Medicine in 1943, as the fascist racial laws allowed those already enrolled to complete their university studies. Thanks to her medical degree she managed to survive the concentration camps where she was interned.

CHIEN-SHIUNG WU

[Shanghai, 1912 – New York, 1997] Chinese physicist, she carried out his research activity mainly in the United States. She participated in the Manhattan project and was among the first women to occupy a prominent place in the panorama of world physics in the twentieth century. She was the first winner of the Wolf Prize for Physics in 1978, for conducting the experiment that bears her name.

EVA MAMELI CALVINO

[Sassari, 1886 – Sanremo, 1978] Botany and naturalist, she was the first woman in Italy to obtain a teaching qualification in botany, in 1915, at the University of Cagliari. From 1926 to 1929 she directed the Botanical Garden of the University of Cagliari, before returning to carry out research at the Experimental Floriculture Station of Sanremo. Silver medal of merit of the Italian Red Cross and Bronze medal of civil valor.

MARYAM MIRZAKHANI

[Tehran, 1977 – Stanford, 2017] Iranian mathematician, she mainly carried out research in the field of geometry. Professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 2008, in 2014 she was the first woman to win the Fields Medal, as well as the first person of Iranian citizenship to receive this recognition.

MARIE ANNE PIERRETTE PAULZE LAVOISIER

[Montbrison, 1758 – Paris, 1836] French chemist, she actively collaborated in the experiments of her husband, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier, and, with her notes and drawings of the experimental apparatus used, she contributed to making her contemporaries understand her methods and results. Subsequently, she continued to disseminate his works and recover his notes and laboratory instruments.

The 2023 Special Donna di Scienza Prize awarded to journalist Silvia Rosa Brusin

The “Woman of Science 2023” Special Award announced by the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association, organizer of the Cagliari FestivalScienza, goes to the scientific journalist Silvia Rosa Brusin. Rosa Brusin, historic presenter of “TG Leonardo”, the RAI 3 scientific information program founded in 1992, will formally receive the award during a ceremony to be held in November on […]

Winners of the 2022 “Woman of Science” award

The ScienzaSocietàScienza Association awarded the 2022 Woman of Science Award to Professor Giulia Manca for the following reasons: “for his research activity testified by hundreds of scientific publications in the field of particle physics, an activity he has carried out and is carrying out at Fermilab in Chicago and at CERN in Geneva; for having […]

“Woman of Science” Award, Fourth Edition

The ScienzaSocietàScienza Association promotes activities aimed at the dissemination of scientific culture and considers the relationship between women and science one of the important issues to be pursued. Even today, in fact, gender equality, despite the goals achieved in recent years at local, national and international level, even within the scientific community, remains strongly influenced […]