Dec 30, 2021 | People of science, Blog
In the next post from our unique People of Science series, we will present the figure of Mrs. Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch, a German woman of Jewish origin, born in Gdańsk in 1907. Growing up during the war times, Salome did not have an easy life – that’s why...
Dec 30, 2021 | People of science, Blog
Today, in addition to World Animal Day, we also celebrate World Oncology Day. For this reason, in the next post in the People of Science series, we will present the person of an oncologist, an American – Martha Tracy. Just a year after the founding of #AACR...
Sep 6, 2021 | People of science, Blog
In today’s post from the Women in Science series, we will present the figure of Esther Lederberg – a microbiologist, immunologist and geneticist. Initially, she studied literature, but was always drawn to biological sciences – she was a great lover...
Sep 6, 2021 | People of science, Blog
Today another of the amazing women of science Women in Science – Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin. English biochemist and crystallographer. The beginnings of her career, like that of most women adolescents in the early 20th century, were not easy. She had to overcome the...
Sep 6, 2021 | People of science, Blog
Today, in the post from the Women in Science series, we present one of the first astronomers living at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, a German woman named Maria Kirch, also known as Maria Winkelmann. Maria never received a formal education because in the...
Sep 6, 2021 | People of science, Blog
Today we will present the profile of the American botanist and geneticist Barbara McClintock. Mrs. Barbara has made many discoveries on the border of these two areas. By examining the genetic structure of maize, she illustrated, among others, how genetic traits are...
