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Anna Berliner and her approach to Japanese culture

Leave a Comment / By The Wins / August 24, 2020 / Berliner, EN / Anna Berliner, Japanese culture, tea, women in science

Anna Berliner and her approach to Japanese culture Chantal Weber Department of Japanese Studies, University of Cologne, Germany Introduction: Historical background In the Meiji period (1868-1912), following the feudal era, Japan invited Western experts (oyatoi gaikokujin お雇い外国人) to bring their knowledge in various academic fields like medicine, geography, law and military. Those experts from Europe …

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The Rape of the discoveries

5 Comments / By The Wins / May 13, 2020 / EN, women in science / Alice Ball, DNA, Rosalind Franklin, WinEu, women in science

What do Wilkins, Watson, Crick and Dean have in common? Readers can easily link the names of Wilkins, Watson and Crick to the famous discovery of the DNA double helix. Somebody will link their names to that of Rosalind Franklin, the usurped researcher of her discoveries, the true discoverer of the DNA double helix structure. …

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Claire Vogt: A forgotten talented daughter

2 Comments / By The Wins / April 29, 2020 / EN, Vogt / child, neuropsychiatry, psychiatrist, women in science

Claire Vogt By studying the writings and biographies dedicated to Cécile and Oskar Vogt, we could not find any news about Claire: the first daughter of Cécile Vogt. The numerous biographical articles, obituaries and the monograph by Igor Klatzo, which trace the life and works of the Vogts, emphasize the professional success and quality of …

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Maria Manasseina: sleep is not the absence of brain activity

Leave a Comment / By The Wins / April 28, 2020 / EN, Manasseina / EEG, insight, sleep, women in science

The birth of electroencephalography (EEG) applied to humans dates back to the 1920s, when Hans Berger for the first time measured the difference in electrical potential between two electrodes placed on the scalp. In the following years, the instrumentation was perfected more and more, and in 1953, Aserinsky and Kleitman described the REM sleep phase …

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Women scientists at the time of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

Leave a Comment / By The Wins / March 18, 2020 / EN, news, women in science / beta-coronavirus, coronavirus, covid19, pandemia, SARS-CoV-2, Spallanzani, WinEu

In these days of crisis due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic we listen the words of eminent biologists, virologists, doctors, the most part of them are all men. But the women? Are there no experts women in the field of virology? Biology? In Italy, the national treatment and research center for infectious diseases is the …

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Anna Berliner and her approach to Japanese culture

The Rape of the discoveries

Claire Vogt: A forgotten talented daughter

Maria Manasseina: sleep is not the absence of brain activity

Women scientists at the time of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

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