Professor David Peimer
Three Remarkable Women Scientists: Marie Curie, Mileva Einstein, Lisa Meitner
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Summary
In this lecture we will explore the lives and work of three of the most extraordinary women scientists of the last century: Marie Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice; Mileva Einstein (1875–1948) was Albert Einstein’s first wife and an outstanding physicist and mathematician who helped him immensely with his work; and Lisa Meitner (1878–1968), a brilliant physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.