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Credit: Left, Nick Zonna/ipa-agency/Shutterstock; right, Massimo Sestini/Mondadori via GettyAstronomer Margherita Hack has become the first female scientist to be. Hack, who was born in 1922 and died in 2013, was a high-profile figure for decades. She was a prominent science communicator and is credited with inspiring generations of young women to pursue a career in science.
In 1964, Florence-born Hack became the first woman to head the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, a role she held until her retirement in 1987. She was also Italy’s first woman to become a full professor in astronomy. She specialized in spectroscopy and stellar evolution, and made frequent appearances on television, communicating science to the public. She was also active politically, campaigning for gay and abortion rights and against the Vatican City’s influence on Italian public life.
The statue shows Hack emerging from a vortex, representing the spiral shape of a galaxy. She is pretending to hold and look through a telescope, an inspirational pose she had taken during a photo shoot. Sissi was one of eight women who had proposed designs for the statue, and was chosen as the winner by a jury. The piece was funded by the non-profit Deloitte Foundation; it joins fewer than 200 public statues of women in Italy.
Researchers identified the genetically distinct sub‑population living in the fjords of southeast Greenland, which is surrounded by mountains and an ice sheet to the west, and ocean to the east (
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