Presentation of the 2013 Equality Calendar about women researchers on nuclear physics
The Equality Commission of the Faculty of Physics of the UB, together with the Catalan Society for Physics, part of the Institute for Catalan Studies, organizes an event to present the activity developed by the Commission and the new 2013 Equality Calendar, in which each month is dedicated to one woman researcher in nuclear physics. The event will take place on Wednesday 19th December, at 1.45 p.m. in the Sala de Graus at the Faculty of Physics.
The Equality Commission of the Faculty of Physics of the UB, together with the Catalan Society for Physics, part of the Institute for Catalan Studies, organizes an event to present the activity developed by the Commission and the new 2013 Equality Calendar, in which each month is dedicated to one woman researcher in nuclear physics. The event will take place on Wednesday 19th December, at 1.45 p.m. in the Sala de Graus at the Faculty of Physics.
After the presentation, which will be performed by the professor Emma Sallent, from the Department of Fundamental Physics, the researcher Arantxa Fraile, member of the same department and of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the UB (IN2UB) —both, affiliated centres with the campus of international excellence BKC— will give a lecture about magnetic nanostructures. This technology, developed through advanced techniques of synthesis and manufacturing, can be made of several materials and present a great number of morphologies, crystalline textures and magnetic properties. Currently, it is used to store digital information and it can also be applied to spintronics and to recording and magnetic reading assisted with electric fields.
Calendar to commemorate the atomʼs discovery
The twelve women researchers who appear in the 2013 Equality Calendar are: Marie Sklodowska Curie, Harriet Brooks, Lise Meitner, Ellen Gleditsch, Edith Hinkley Quimby, Marietta Blau, Irène Joliot-Curie, Katharine Way, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Marguerite Catherine Perey, Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber i Chien-Shiung Wu. All of them, mostly unknown, have made major contributions to solve some of the enigmas posed by nuclear physics. A great number of them had to fight against a hostile social environment and faced the difficulties derived from combining research and family. They fought against scorn or discrimination, or even the exile. Despite everything, they were supported by other scientists who collaborated with them. A great number of them were womenʼs rights activists.
This calendar for 2013, year that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Niels Bohr atom model —an inflection point in science history—, aims at contributing to disseminate the life experience of these women who devoted themselves to research and to arise curiosity towards their scientific contributions.
The calendarʼs edition is supported by the Equality Unit of the UB and the National Centre for Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics (CPAN).