Women scientists in literature

Literature — especially fiction and biographies — increasingly brings to light and restores the legacy of women scientists too often forgotten by official narratives. It offers overdue justice.

Books such as "Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics" by Ruth Lewin Sime or "The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore tell individual stories of these scientists and the essential contributions they made to research, while exposing the obstacles they faced.

"Lise Meitner’s exclusion from the Nobel Prize is one of the most glaring examples of the Matilda effect. Despite her crucial theoretical contribution to explaining nuclear fission, the prize was awarded solely to Otto Hahn in 1944."

"Her work was not merely supportive; it was foundational. Without her calculations and physical insight, Hahn’s experimental results would have remained unexplained mysteries."

— Excerpt from "Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics" by Ruth Lewin Sime View the book on Amazon