Tvrdohlavé Marie

Stubborn Marys seeks to answer the question of how women can achieve success in the field of top-level science. It weaves together and compares the biographical narratives of nine outstanding Czech women scientists born around the middle of the last century, tracing the circumstances that accompanied the often thorny beginnings and the difficult path to building scientific careers in their fields. The title refers to a once-popular novel about the life and work of Polish-French scientist Marie Skłodowska-Curie, winner of two Nobel prizes (for physics and chemistry), which influenced many of the interviewees as they grew up. What other key personal moments or historical events shaped their scientific careers?