“Great women” researchers on the “big screen” at The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2020
November 16, 2020
Friday 27 November 2020 – live broadcast from the la Residencia de Estudiantes
Some researchers from the IMDEA Institutes will tell us about great scientists who have been or would deserve to be the protagonists of impressive film premieres.
The European Researchers´Night in Madrid 2020
The European Researchers´Night in Madrid 2020 coordinated by the Fundación para el Conocimiento madrimasd is an action framed in the European Horizonte 2020 programme, which is held in more than 300 European cities at the same time.
“Great women” researchers on the “big screen”
Starting a story about great scientists by quoting Marie Sklodowska-Curie is as topical as it is inevitable. The interest in her discoveries, her own life, an example of struggle and improvement, have made her the protagonist, not in one, but in several films released on the big screen. Never before in history, and until now, never after, has a name been repeated so much when it comes to research done by women. And surely, not even when talking about science in general, with the honorable exception of Albert Einstein, with whom she had a relationship of mutual admiration.
Letter from Einstein to Sklodowska-Curie encouraging her to accept the Nobel Prize in 1911, after the outbreak of a sentimental scandal in the Parisian press, which made her hesitate to accept it.
Marie is credited with the sentence “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale.” This sentece sums up what it meant for her to do science. Beauty, technique, the ability to impress and to be impressed, and the search for a happy ending like a fairy tale when your work culminates in something that improves everyone’s lives, what more could you ask of science? Surely recognition.
To try to make us all recognize the immense work and merit of many researchers less known than Marie Sklodowska-Curie, some researchers from the seven IMDEA Institutes will meet in the auditorium of the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid next Friday, November 27, at “Great women” researchers on the “big screen”, which can be followed live on https://www.imdea.org/en/ (IMDEA) and http://www.edaddeplata.org/ (Residencia de Estudiantes).
The public will be able to ask the researchers in the second part of the activity using the profiles of the IMDEA Institutes on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Activity live broadcasted from the Residencia de Estudiantes (with no public in the room) through https://www.imdea.org/en/ and http://www.edaddeplata.org/.
Detailed schedule: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. From the auditorium of the Residencia de Estudiantes, researchers of the IMDEA Institutes will present great scientists whose personal and professional lives deserve to be taken to the cinema.
- 19:00 – 20:00 h. Questions from the public.
Target audience: General public.
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020.
Live broadcast from the Residencia de Estudiantes.
Organized by: IMDEA Institutes.
Contact information:
- Telephone: 911 01 22 02 ext. 4312.
- Email: noche.investigadores@imdea.org
- Webs: https://www.imdea.org/en/ and http://www.madrimasd.org/lanochedelosinvestigadores/?lan=en
Due to the current situation, this information may undergo changes. We will keep you promptly informed at https://www.imdea.org/ and on the profiles of the IMDEA Institutes on Twitter and Facebook.
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The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid 2020 is a scientific dissemination project, promoted by the Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by the Madri+d Foundation. This project is financed by the European Union within the 2020 Horizonte Program on Research and Innovation, under a grant agreement number 953.820
