Exhibits to Rent

This exhibit reveals how two women endured incredible challenges during an era when women were not welcome in scientific discovery. Despite a lack of financial support, unsophisticated academic facilities, and little recognition of their endeavors, they persevered and triumphed.

Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, experimented together and discovered two radioactive elements, polonium and radium. They worked for four years to acquire a minimal quantity of radium to prove there was such an element. In 1903, Pierre and Marie and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in physics for their work and their discovery of radioactivity. In 1911, she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for her work in radioactivity. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and the only one to win Prizes in two sciences.

Lise Meitner worked with Otto Hahn. She and Hahn discovered a radioactive element and named it protactinium. Although she collaborated heavily with him, Hahn received the credit for the work. In 1938, she escaped Germany without personal possessions, eventually locating to Stockholm, Sweden. In 1944, Hahn received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for interpreting nuclear fission. Meitner was not mentioned, leading many to say this was the most significant oversight ever made by the Nobel Prize committee. In 1997, twenty-nine years after her death, the chemical element 109, the heaviest known element, was named Meitnerium in her honor.

Exhibition Logistics

Rental Fee: $1,500 per month
Footage Requirement: 120 linear ft, 1000 square feet
Security Level: Moderate
Number of Crates: 2
Available Dates: Please email us for information on dates for four-week venues.
Estimated Shipping Costs: To Be Determined