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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Lise Meitner
 

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


Name of the male historic character
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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Name of the female historic character
Frida Kahlo
 

María Villaverde Temes, Raúl Figueira Jamardo · 17 febrero 2018 14:31


Name of the male historic character
Diego Rivera

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Frida Kahlo was a famous mexican painter and also a feminist, very known for her artworks where she painted herself with animals and flowers. For many years her talent was eclipsed by Diego Rivera her husband who was also a famous painter.
Nowadays Frida is a mundial referent of the mexican paint.

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Coretta Scott King
 

Raquel Romaní Portals · 27 febrero 2018 23:29


Name of the male historic character
Martin Luther King

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Coretta Scott King (Marion, Alabama, United States, April 27, 1927-Playas de Rosarito, Baja California Mexico, January 30, 2006) was an American writer and activist, recognized leader of the African-American community. Wife of activist and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, who was assassinated in 1968.

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Carmen de Burgos Colombine
 

Nerea Sánchez Lens · 21 febrero 2018 15:42


Name of the male historic character
Perico el de los Palotes

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Belongs to the generation of 98. She is considered the first professional journalist in history. She had to hide her reformist profile with a multitude of pseudonyms such as Perico el de los Palotes. Her marriage was a disappointment because her husband was an infidel. When her son dies, she abandons her husband and, together with her daughter, settles in Madrid. From 1902 he collaborated with the newspaper El Globo. At the end of 1906 he resumed his teaching and journalistic work and launched a campaign in El Heraldo de Madrid in favor of female suffrage. With the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931, the new constitution recognized civil marriage, divorce and female voting. She died at sixty years of age,and was buried in the civil cemetery of Madrid.
After the Civil War and the victory of the Franco regime, his name was included in the list of prohibited authors and his books disappeared from libraries and bookstores.

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Name of the female historic character
Silveria Fañanas García
 

Adriana Cifuentes Zamalloa, Dominic Iglesias Rodriguez · 23 febrero 2018 19:39


Name of the male historic character
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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