Che la storia delle donne nella cultura e nella vita civile sia stata una storia di emarginazione, tutti più o meno lo sanno. Basti pensare che in Italia solo nel 1946 alle donne fu concesso il diritto di voto e che, ancora oggi, in molti Paesi esso è negato o limitato.
Nella mia classe durante le lezioni physics, although the program and the few hours available, our teacher taught us to cast an eye on the lives and talents of women scientists who, overcoming stereotypes, prejudices and economic difficulties have contributed and are contributing, with their passion , their sensitivity and their commitment to the development of progress.
The scenario is always the same: a mobile station with a computer and a projector with which, on a white wall, is transmitted pictures, experiences, memories and testimonies of women who, well digging, were many: from the Nobel Medicine Barbara McClintock (1983) for the discovery of transposons and Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986) for growth factor nerve cells (NGF) in the case of Lise Meitner that - unlike in 1944, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - although it was not awarded for first, provided the theoretical explanation of nuclear fission, to the even more emblematic of Rosalind Franklin, whose discoveries about DNA were overshadowed by the most famous James Watson and Francis Crick, both Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962.
The aim is to highlight and understand the excellence of their work in getting young people to compete in science, as opposed to the power of beauty and popularity of media.
is also thanks to them, in other words, if today we can see farther. So yes we can say, with Bernard of Chartres, who are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants!
Trematore HIGH SCHOOL DANIEL V. Gioberti, Torino
What a lovely few lines in this letter that gets rid of a series of cliches: 1) that now reigns in schools and the lack of interest that teachers are exhausted and without any spark of idealism, and 2) that today's students are apathetic and disinterested in all and every effort is useless to them, and 3) that if a field has a few hours then it is impossible to imagine an effective program is also capable of going beyond the planned schedule, 4) that the marriage between the women and science is something unnatural; 5) that young people are not grateful towards those who taught him something and is able to make them dream. (Mario Calabresi)
Nella mia classe durante le lezioni physics, although the program and the few hours available, our teacher taught us to cast an eye on the lives and talents of women scientists who, overcoming stereotypes, prejudices and economic difficulties have contributed and are contributing, with their passion , their sensitivity and their commitment to the development of progress.
The scenario is always the same: a mobile station with a computer and a projector with which, on a white wall, is transmitted pictures, experiences, memories and testimonies of women who, well digging, were many: from the Nobel Medicine Barbara McClintock (1983) for the discovery of transposons and Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986) for growth factor nerve cells (NGF) in the case of Lise Meitner that - unlike in 1944, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - although it was not awarded for first, provided the theoretical explanation of nuclear fission, to the even more emblematic of Rosalind Franklin, whose discoveries about DNA were overshadowed by the most famous James Watson and Francis Crick, both Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962.
The aim is to highlight and understand the excellence of their work in getting young people to compete in science, as opposed to the power of beauty and popularity of media.
is also thanks to them, in other words, if today we can see farther. So yes we can say, with Bernard of Chartres, who are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants!
Trematore HIGH SCHOOL DANIEL V. Gioberti, Torino
What a lovely few lines in this letter that gets rid of a series of cliches: 1) that now reigns in schools and the lack of interest that teachers are exhausted and without any spark of idealism, and 2) that today's students are apathetic and disinterested in all and every effort is useless to them, and 3) that if a field has a few hours then it is impossible to imagine an effective program is also capable of going beyond the planned schedule, 4) that the marriage between the women and science is something unnatural; 5) that young people are not grateful towards those who taught him something and is able to make them dream. (Mario Calabresi)
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