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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

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Chien-Shiung Wu
 

Hugo Martínez Velo, Jesús Altuve, Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 23 febrero 2018 18:34


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 Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning

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Joan Clarke
 

Antía Vizcaya Sanluís, Juan Trigo García · 23 febrero 2018 16:50


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Alan Turing

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Trough the 2nd global war Alan Turing (1912-1954) and a group of male genious and a woman, Joan Clarke (1917-1996) helped a lot to destroy the nazys code of the Enigma machine.

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Name of the female historic character
Lilian Disney
 

Carla Redondo Porto, Raúl Pérez Agra · 21 febrero 2018 21:37


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Walt Disney

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As in many other stories of important people in which the woman was in the background, Lillian Disney was one of them. Her husband, Walt Disney, and she loved each other very much. Few know that Lillian was the one who in 1928 (already created Walt Disney Studios) chose the name of Mickey since Walt wanted to put him Mortimer. Walt adored her and that's why he had all his proposals in mind. When they got married they had a daughter and later they adopted another. Two big ones of the animation that follow today present their most famous caricature, Mickey Mouse.

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Name of the female historic character
Lise Meitner
 

María Peña Rodríguez, Ruben Noya Doce · 23 febrero 2018 14:04


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Otto Hahn

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Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a German chemist and Lise Meither (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist who investigates radiation and nuclear physics. Also, in 1918, she worked with Otto Hahn in an investigation where they discovered protactinium. But later, she had to leave Germany, forced by the Laws of the Nazi government. Together, in 1938, they discovered the nuclear fission of uranium and thorium, and, for this discovery, Hahn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for his pioneering work in the field of radioactivity, however, Meitner was never recognized as a co-author of this discovery because she was a woman. It's often considered one of the most obvious examples of scientific findings discovered by women and overlooked by the Nobel committee for being a woman, but in her honor the chemical element 109 was named "meitnerio".

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Lee Miller
 

Daniel Mato Gómez, Sara Pazos Barreiro · 26 febrero 2018 07:44


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Man Ray

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Lee Miller was born on April 23, 1907 in Poughkeepsie.
in 1929 she moved to Paris with the intention of becoming an apprentice to Man Ray
She opened her own photo studio.
Sometimes, she was in charge of making fashionable photographs commissioned to Man Ray for that he could concentrate on his painting, so many of the photographs taken during this period and attributed to Man Ray were actually taken by Lee Miller.

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