Women in sciences

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00078

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

11/01/2006

Production year

2006

Abstract

Hoda Elmikaty, opens up the lecture and invites Dr. Ismail Serageldin, director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, to start his lecture entitled "Women in science". He shed a light on women’s achievements, and success stories in different fields and salute many women leaders in sciences who left their mark on many institutions as for example (Agnodice, Cleopatre, and Hypatia ). He also refers to Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel prize in 1903 in physics, and Gerty Cori, first woman to win Nobel Prize in sciences. The lecture deals with the impediments that may still exist on women path for freedom and equality too.

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Serageldin Ismail

Primary theme

Science

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life / Women

Credits / Cast

• Serageldin Ismail - Speaker
• Elmikaty Hoda - Speaker

Period of events

• 2006

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

English

Media running time

17m26