Sandra Klos offers a guided tour at the Exhibition “Discovering Female Researchers: Women at the Academy of Sciences” reaches Innsbruck
Do you know Marietta Blau? She was one of the first women in Austria to study physics and mathematics. She conducted research on radioactivity at the University of Vienna and as a “freie Mitarbeiterin” (unpaid affiliate) at the Institute for Radium Research of the Academy of Sciences. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize five times, but never received it. As a Jew, Marietta Blau was forced to emigrate in 1938 to Norway. She passed away in Vienna in 1970 and no obituary appeared in any scientific journal.
The exhibition “Discovering Female Researchers: Women at the Academy of Sciences”, which is now on display in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presents Marietta Blau and other early female researchers, such as the zoologist Leonore Brecher or the archaeologists Maria Junker and Lisbeth Schäfer and narrates a powerful story of women in academia, of their achievements and setbacks.
Sandra Klos will be in Innsbruck giving a guided tour on September 26, 2024.