Discovering female researchers: Women at the Academy of Sciences
Monday, 02.09.2024 to Thursday, 31.10.2024
09:00 – 12:00
IQOQI, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck
Free admission
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Do you know Marietta Blau? She was one of the first women in Austria to study physics and mathematics. She conducted research at the Hafelekar in Innsbruck, among other places, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize five times. Unsuccessfully. As a Jew, Marietta Blau was forced to emigrate in 1938. She died in Vienna in 1970. No obituary appeared in any scientific journal.
Marietta Blau and other early researchers such as the zoologist Leonore Brecher or the archaeologists Maria Junker and Lisbeth Schäfer are honored in the exhibition “Discovering Female Researchers: Women at the Academy of Sciences”, which can be seen from September 2 to October 31, 2024 at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
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Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences