A lecture by historian Louis-Pascal Jacquemond to mark the publication of "L'effet Matilda" (Odile Jacob, 2025)
In the early 1980s, historian Margaret Rossiter defined the Matilda effect as the denial of women scientists’ contributions to scholarly work. Marie Curie may be well known, but who else is? What made Hypathia d’Alexandrie, Sophie Germain, Lise Meitner, Marthe Gautier, Esther Lederberg, Eunice Foote, the Harvard Computers, and the Hidden Figures “invisible”? In this lecture, Louis-Pascal Jacquemond, a Doctor of History, adjunct lecturer at Science Po Paris, and author of "L'effet Matilda", will examine the lives and careers of these women scientists and the factors behind their “invisibility.”
Admission: Reservations required by email at [email protected] or by phone at 01 53 90 30 30
Source: paris.fr — photo: LP Jacquemond personal collection