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“WOMEN WHO HAVE CHANGED HISTORY"

Women. Bold, intelligent and willing women to get involved, who have changed history, previously dominated by only men.
There are 15 scientists who have changed the world thanks to their discoveries. We girls of the IC V. Rocco di S.Arpino tell you about the life of some scientists.

Margherita Hack,  was born in Florence on June 12, 1922, in a street called Via delle Cento Stelle. He loved the stars, he said “From the calcium in our bones to the iron in our blood, we are made entirely of elements created in the heart of the stars. We are truly "children of the stars".

Margherita loved going to the Arcetri Observatory and while looking at the sky with a telescope she asked herself questions about the stars.

But Margherita didn't just have a passion for the stars, some of her best friends were stars! Eta Boo, Zeta Her, Omega Tau and 55 Cygni. When she returned to Florence she became the first Italian woman to direct an astronomical observatory.

Rita Levi Montalcini he was born into a Jewish family in the early twentieth century. She enrolled at the University of Medicine of Turin. After graduation, he did not immediately understand whether to pursue research or medical practice. Following the promulgation of the racial laws, Rita Levi Montalcini was forced to move to Brussels. The aim of Rita Levi Montalcini's research was to identify the role of peripheral tissues in the development of nerve centers. In 1953, a collaboration was born between Rita Levi Montalcini and Stanley Cohen that led to the identification of the factor released by the tumor and capable of stimulating the growth of nerve fibers, Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). Stanley Cohen therefore isolated the NGF factor from snake venom. Rita Levi Montalcini was also very active on a social and political level. The Italian scientist Rita Levi Montalcini also represented an extraordinary example in this sense. Committed to the end on both a scientific and social level, she died at the age of 103 on 30 December 2012.

Rosalind Franklin. Her story was a unique revelation for women and for the future. Rosalind Franklin in fact wrote the basics of molecular biology providing the experimental evidence of the helix structure of DNA.

 However, his colleagues won the Nobel.

This was an injustice that was never claimed, but one of the colleagues who stole the idea of ​​the discovery from her wrote a book accusing herself of the theft. This woman is one of many examples, of which we girls are proud.

 

“The stars are not very different from us: They are born, grow, grow old and die. "

       cit. Margherita Hack

"Above all, do not fear difficult moments, the best comes from there"

          cit. Rita Levi Montalcini

"Science and everyday life cannot and must not be separated."

          cit. Rosalind Franklin

 

                                                           

 SARAH CAPUANO, AURORA VITALE, ANNALISA MONTANARO 

 2F - IC Rocco S.Arpino (Italy)- teacher Oliva Rosalia