The Women of NBI—Then and Now

Contribution List

1. Opening

Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive), Maren Malling (Kvinder i Fysik)

12/11/2024, 12:15

2. Kirstine Meyer and Hanna Adler

Anja Skaar Jacobsen

12/11/2024, 12:30

Session 1

3. Piedad de la Cierva, Rachel Lindsay, Jane Dewey and Tatiana Ehrenfest

Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive), Rob Sunderland

12/11/2024, 13:00

Session 1

4. Margrethe Bohr, Betty Schultz and Sophie Hellmann

Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive), Rob Sunderland

12/11/2024, 13:30

Session 1

5. Discussion session

12/11/2024, 14:00

Session 1

6. Hilde Levi

Liselotte Højgaard

12/11/2024, 15:00

Session 2

7. Research and career presentation

Lene Oddershede

12/11/2024, 15:30

Session 2

8. Discussion session

12/11/2024, 16:00

Session 2

9. Keynote presentation: Lise Meitner - Her Life and the Discovery of Fission

Anthea J. Coster

12/11/2024, 17:30

Lise Meitner was one of the pioneers of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Albert Einstein once called her “the most significant woman scientist of the 20th century.” Yet by the 1970s, her name was nearly forgotten. With the publication of the book by Ruth Lewin Sime, “Lise Meitner, A life in physics,” to some extent her name has...

10. Research and career talk

Elisabeth Ulrikkeholm

13/11/2024, 09:00

Session 3

11. Research and career talk

Namiko Mitarai

13/11/2024, 09:30

Session 3

12. Discussion session

13/11/2024, 10:00

Session 3

15. Julie Vinter Hansen

Bente Rosenbeck

13/11/2024, 11:00

Session 4

13. Research and career talk

Sarah Pearson

13/11/2024, 11:30

Session 4

14. Research and career talk

Irene Tamborra

13/11/2024, 12:00

Session 4

16. Discussion session

13/11/2024, 12:30

Session 4

17. Panel Discussion

13/11/2024, 14:30

Panelists:
Anja. C. Andersen, Professor at NBI, University of Copenhagen
Anthea J. Coster, Assistant Director, MIT Haystack Observatory
Birgitta Nordström, Assoc. Professor Emerita at NBI, University of Copenhagen
Hanne Andersen, Professor at Dept. of Science Education, University of Copenhagen
Joachim Mathiesen, Head of Institute, NBI, University of Copenhagen