Webinar :: Women in a historical French laboratory of crystallography (D.Cabaret, C. Brouder)

Friday 9 April 2021, 14:00

Delphine Cabaret and Christian Brouder

The Chair of Mineralogy of The Sorbonne, created in 1809 for René-Just Haüy, evolved to the present Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry (IMPMC) of Sorbonne Université.

Brilliant women scientists have been working or still work in this laboratory.
Their research activities range from experimental to theoretical diffraction, and concerns the exploration of extraterrestrial samples as well as the development of synchrotron beamlines.
In this talk, we will examine the careers of some of these women researchers, who had striking contributions in the French crystallography from the 50s to nowadays. We will make a focus on the 60s, when the doors of the laboratory were opened to women thanks to a man: Hubert Curien.