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The line drawn portraits of these three scientists are - very appropriately - projected on the facade of the academic hospital Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc. The symbols used in the portraits are a hint to the field of women. For example, the sun has been essential for Mária Telkes (HU / US, 1900-1995), a pioneer in solar energy research who succeeded early in storing solar heat. Rosalind Franklin (GB, 1920-1958) discovered the structure of our DNA in 1952, but unfortunately the Nobel Prize for this was awarded to her colleagues after her untimely death. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (FR, 1947) identified the HIV virus in the 1980s as the cause of AIDS and has been researching drugs and a vaccine ever since.

Supported by: iGuzinni & Amsterdam UMC location VUmc