Assumpta Parreño, a researcher in nuclear physics at the University of Barcelona and deputy director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, talks in this video about when she decided to be a scientist, the curiosity as the basis of scientific personality, how the work of many Women physicists has not been recognized in many years and how these barriers are being overcome.
Assumpta Parreño. Internacional Day of Women and Girls in Science
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