Inquiring Minds: Notable Women Scientists Who Fled Nazi Germany and Overcame Further Obstacles

When the Nazis forced Jewish people and women out of public service and university jobs, eminent physicists Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen all lost their positions. They were forced to flee the country, but sexism meant finding a job abroad was virtually impossible. What would it take for them to make it out alive.

Author Olivia Campbell will recount the stories of four women scientists who were forced to flee Nazi Germany to stay alive, and then had to fight sexism in order to continue to thrive and make remarkable contributions to science.

Campbell is the New York Times bestselling author of "Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine" and “Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History”.

She is a regular contributor at National Geographic. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, and History.com, among others. 

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