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How Fascism Erased 300 Female Geniuses: The Untold Story of Austria's Lost Scientists
Biographies of Important Austrian Female Scientists
What if the greatest intellectual hub on earth was lobotomized overnight? This video dives into a 2018 biographical dictionary, 'Biographies of Important Austrian Female Scientists,' edited by historians Ilse Korotin and Nastasja Stupnicki. It excavates the lives of 300 brilliant women—chemists, physicists, psychiatrists—whose contributions were systematically erased by institutional sexism and Nazi persecution. From Rosa Koeller Adler's revolutionary pregnancy test to Mariana Sirona's extreme vacuum pump, these women rebuilt modern science globally after being forced into exile or murdered. But the story doesn't end there: postwar academia rebuilt the same walls, and today's AI risks automating this amnesia. Discover how fragile genius is, why the lights went out in Vienna, and what we must do to prevent history from repeating.
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