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28FEB 2025
gen-news
Science on a Trip: Bringing History of Nuclear Science to Children
by Maria Rentetzi What is it like to be Alice in Wonderland? And what if Alice wants to tell stories about science to children? This is how I felt visiting the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April 2024, a leading event in the publishing industry. One of three most visited book fairs in the world, […]
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11FEB 2025
ai4gov
We launched AI4Gov-X
And that’s a wrap! As we close this week’s kick-off meeting, we’re excited to launch #AI4Gov-X soon! This EU co-funded #DigitalEuropeProgram project aims to mobilise and train a new generation of European civil servants and policymakers for the adoption and mastery of AI in the public sector of the future. Over the past week, we’ve […]
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31JAN 2025
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The HRP-IAEA exhibition
This history of radiation protection has been shaped by many people and institutions: those who have survived cancer against all odds, those who have fallen victims to the horrors of nuclear weapons warfare, those who have been committed to researching radiation despite the risks, and those who have gathered in political, scientific or diplomatic committees […]
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08JAN 2025
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Call for papers: Geopolitics of Radiation Protection
Dates: June 13-14, 2025 Deadline: February 20, 2025 Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany The Chair of Science Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in collaboration with the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies at Shiv Nadar University, India, invite submissions for a workshop to be held June 13-14, 2025, in […]Dates: June 13-14, 2025 Deadline: February 20, 2025 Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany The Chair of Science Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in collaboration with the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies at Shiv Nadar University, India, invite submissions for a workshop to be held June 13-14, 2025, in […]
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28OCT 2024
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Mobile Isotopes laboratories video
As part of our commitment to break down the solid boundaries between academia and public audiences, this is the first video in our ERC funded series on the public history of radiation protection. Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered as gifts to the International […]
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08OCT 2024
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A medical physicist avant-la letter: Edith Smaw Quimby (1891–1982)
Maria Rentetzi and Sandra Klos “Radiation from x-ray tubes and radioactive substances is very useful in medicine and industry. But we must never for a moment lose sight of the fact that improperly used radiation can be a menace, not only to the user but to the completely innocent bystander” argued Edith Smaw Quimby […]
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