{"id":466,"date":"2022-02-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum.lavorazioni.dev\/women-in-science\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:08:37","slug":"women-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museumstrategy.org\/en\/women-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"come-la-cultura-puo-raccontare-grandi-storie-di-scoperte-al-femminile\"><strong>How Culture can tell great stories of female discovery<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumstrategy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Women-in-Science-Daria-Koshkina.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1435\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Daria Koshkina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is <strong>World Women in Science Day<\/strong>, and we at Museum Strategy Consultancy decided to collect some of their stories told through cultural products:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rosalind Franklin <\/strong>: British chemist, biochemist and crystallographer: to her we owe the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Anna Ziegler&#8217;s<strong>play<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bPCjY2-zLCI&amp;ab_channel=MichaelGrandage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Photograph 51<\/strong><\/em><\/a> tells the story of the scientist, played by Nicole Kidman, related to the discovery of the morphology of this molecule. You can find an interview with the actress about her performance and the story linking her to the events of Rosalind Franklin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=77sQNnqNB1o&amp;ab_channel=MichaelGrandage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>;<\/li><li><strong>Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze: <\/strong>French chemist and noblewoman of the late 18th century. Her deep knowledge in the field of chemistry contributed to the work of her husband, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, through the translation of many publications by British chemists. Famous is Jacques-Louis David&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/it\/art\/collection\/search\/436106\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>painting<\/strong><\/a> of Mr. and Mrs. Lavoisier inside their scientific laboratory. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/perspectives\/articles\/2021\/9\/david-lavoisier-conservation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restoration<\/a> and scientific analysis, the MET Museum discovered a different composition of the painting. <a href=\"https:\/\/video.repubblica.it\/tecnologia\/tech\/un-dipinto-cerco-di-salvare-lo-scienziato-lavoisier-dalla-ghigliottina-lo-ha-scoperto-il-met-dopo-oltre-230-anni\/400957\/401667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> you can listen to the words of Federico Car\u00f2, one of the researchers on the Met Museum&#8217;s scientific research team;<\/li><li><strong>Mary Anning: <\/strong>paleontologist and author of many important finds in the field of Jurassic-era marine fossils, including the first complete skeletons of ichthyosaur and plesiosaur. In 2020, a piece of her story is being told by Francis Lee&#8217;s <strong>film <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yd_nsFJAXV4&amp;ab_channel=MovieCoverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ammonite<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yd_nsFJAXV4&amp;ab_channel=MovieCoverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Above a Wave of the Sea<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ecL8gx_dQFo&amp;ab_channel=PratyushBarik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> you can listen to the voices of the two lead actresses (Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan) along with the film&#8217;s director;<\/li><li><strong>Marie Curie: <\/strong>Polish physics, chemistry and mathematics. From Russian Poland, she moved to France where she undertook her studies at the Sorbonne. She discovered radium and polonium, whose name was chosen in honor of her homeland. Alice Milani&#8217;s <strong>graphic novel<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beccogiallo.it\/prodotto\/marie-curie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Marie Curie<\/em><\/a> succeeds in exploring, through a delicate style, some aspects of the life of the scientist, who was able to overcome the adversities of life guided by her passion for scientific research;<\/li><li><strong>Women in Science: <\/strong>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/news\/article\/2020\/08\/women-science-podcast#:~:text=Women%20in%20Science%20is%20a,their%20unique%20journeys%20as%20scientists.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Queensland<\/a> has created a <strong>podcast<\/strong> consisting of twelve episodes where the stories of the university&#8217;s female researchers and doctors who have contributed greatly within their field of knowledge have been collected. Episodes of the podcast and their research can be heard <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6Y94xKZt9JhI8KqsOuhLBS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Culture can tell great stories of female discovery Today is World Women in Science Day, and we at Museum Strategy Consultancy decided to collect some of their stories told through cultural products: Rosalind Franklin : British chemist, biochemist and crystallographer: to her we owe the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. 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