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The "Infanta Elena" Cultural Center hosts until November 18 this Exhibition with 38 biographies of 38 female scientists or inventors and their portraits, especially directed to students of Primary and Secondary Education, but also for people who Wish.
In the morning of today Alcantarilla Mayor Joaquín Buendía, together with the Director General of Universities and Research of the Region of Murcia, Juan Monzó and Antonio González, managing director of the Séneca Foundation - Agency of Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia , Were present at the official opening of the exhibition "Discovering Scientists" at the Cultural Center "Infanta Elena" of our city.
The exhibition, carried out by the Ministry of Education and Universities, the Seneca Foundation, along with Sewer City Council, through the Department of Education, will be in Alcantarilla until 18 November.
It shows the biographies of 38 scientific women or inventors and the portraits of them.
These illustrations were made by children between the ages of 7 and 10, in plastic workshops that took place during the Science and Technology Week 2014 (Secyt 14), organized by the Seneca Foundation and directed by the plastic artist Gloria Lapeña and Is completed with a series of digital resources available on the web www.fseneca.es/descubriendo-cientificas.
The exhibition was exhibited for the first time in Secyt 15, and currently the Séneca Foundation makes it available to the educational centers of the Region of Murcia, to be shown to students of Primary and Secondary Education, but also for all those who Wish to visit it during the opening hours of the "Infanta Elena" Cultural Center.
Women's access to university classrooms and laboratories and research spaces is a reality today, but this was not always the case.
The authorship and role of women in science have often been obscured or silenced, along with the enormous value of their contribution, often pioneering, in fields such as mathematics, physics, astronomy, medicine, psychology, or biology.
Discovering Scientists: the other half of science proposes a journey through the work and life experience of thirty-eight scientists and inventors - although the list could be much more extensive - throughout history through a peculiar look: Of boys and girls.
For this, the Séneca Foundation has had the collaboration of Gloria Lapeña, who accepted the proposal to organize a workshop in which the little ones could discover, by means of the plastic language and starting from a text prepared specifically for each one of them, The immense value of women's contributions to science and technology.
It is the work of these children on the figure of scientists mostly unknown to the general public that we wish to show as a way of recognizing and doing justice to that "other half of Science".
Gloria Lapeña also carried out the publication of a book, through the Seneca Foundation, with the catalog "Discovering scientists", where she compiles the stories of these thirty-eight women dedicated to research activity, stories to read, To learn and to enjoy.
The women portrayed by Gloria and her "young team" are:
Melanie Klein.
The child psychoanalyst
Carol W. Greider.
The Great Dyslexic
Rachel Carson.
Ecologist, a female name
Grace Murray Hopper.
The Incredible Grace
Rita Levi Montalcini.
The Immortal Thinker
Barbara McClintock.
The genial solitary
Jane Marcet.
Writer of Sciences and Economy
Gertrude Belle Ellion.
The fairy of medicines
Virginia Apgar.
The Baby Examiner
Mary Anderson.
Inventor of the windshield wiper
Ana Lluch Hernández.
The oncologist 100%
Ellen Swallow Richards.
A Dietician of Your Time
Elizabeth Blackwell
Ada Lovelace.
The lovely numbers
Marion Donovan.
Inventor of the disposable diaper
Mary Phelps Jacob.
Bra Inventor
Stephanie Kwolek.
Kevlar inventor
Hedy Lamarr.
Wi-Fi Inventor
Vandana Shiva.
An ecofeminist in solidarity
Jocelyn Bell.
The Bell Star
Bette Nesmith Graham.
Inventor of Tipp-Ex
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
The Montaigner Hare
Henrietta Swan, Leavitt.
An eclipsed star
Angela Ruiz Robles.
The inventor of the first electronic encyclopedia
Lise Meitner.
Meitnerio, the element does not.
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Margarita Salas.
Discoverer of the invisible
Erna Schneider.
Patent number 3,623,007
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
The sculptress of molecules
Pilar Roig Picazo.
Science of Art
Linda Buck.
A biologist with a very good sense of smell
Patricia Billings.
Geobond Inventor
Beulah Henry.
Mrs. Edison
Françoise Dolto.
A psychologist concerned about children
Edith M. Flaningen.
'Inventor' of precious stones
Evelyn Berezin.
The pioneer of the 'Word'
Marie Curie.
Mrs. Sklodowska
Irène Joliot-Curie.
The Curie Girl
Josephine Cochran.
Dishwasher Inventor
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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