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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita left a legacy of progress, both scientific and social. Perhaps she is still looking down on us, since an asteroid was named after her: 8558 Hack.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Even though Aldo and Margherita were very different in many ways, they came together in their skepticism. Towards the end of her life, Margherita couldn't move around much, but her brain never stopped going.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, Margherita talks about her choice not to have children and also discusses her position regarding God. She can't prove he exists nor can she prove he doesn't.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We discover that Margherita Hack was a devoted fan of the long-running TV series, Un posto al sole [a place in the sun]. She explains why. Francesca goes back to Trieste and meets up with Eda who talks about having lived in the same house with Margherita Hack.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack spent some time in politics and was also an entrepreneur at times. But she had a lot of fun, too. On the panel with Camilleri, the author of the Montalbano stories, they all come out (in unison) with the famous introduction Montalbano sono (Montalbano, I am). Putting the verb at the end is typical of Sicily, where the story takes place. Otherwise, it would be Sono Montalbano (I'm Montalbano) or, on the phone, "This is Montalbano."

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack was a scientist and communicator, but she also expressed her opinions about attualità (current events). Part of this segment features a panel discussion she held with author Andrea Camilleri, best known for his novels about Inspector Montalbano that became a popular TV series.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack's talents lay not only in her greatness as a scientist, but also in her remarkable ability to communicate with the general public, and especially young people. She rendered complicated information comprehensible and interesting, using clear and simple examples.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Aldo and Margherita stuck together. He might get bored at her lectures, but he would always be there. They both shared a love for sports and motocycles.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Perhaps not everyone knows that Margherita Hack as a girl was quite the athlete. Her sport was track and field. She also had a passion for cycling and rode her bike well into her seventies.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita was much more interested in substance and knowledge than in material things, including physical appearance, and this became her brand, in a certain sense. That didn't keep people from loving and respecting her, although there were some occasional incidents, a few of which are recounted by people who knew her.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack made her mark on the University of Trieste, teaching Astronomy there for almost 30 years and linking it with the Observatory. She had to use some drastic means to be recognized, however, being a woman in a man's world. But the balance changed over time, with her help, to involve many more women than before, both as students and researchers.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Eda discovered Margherita Hack on a TV show hosted by Piero Angela. This changed Eda's life. Margherita as a young scientist had a rough time in a profession where men were the important ones and had little regard for women.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

A car problem allows us to meet Eda Gjergo, a young astrophysicist, who will in turn lead us to meet Margherita Hack, the subject of this episode about women luminaries. Hack was a famous scientist, communicator, and activist.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The documentary concludes with some valuable advice from Rita Levi-Montalcini about how to live one's life. People who knew her offer some adjectives to describe who she was.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In her final years, Rita Levi-Montalci was very, very frail, but she never lost her combative spirit. Romano Prodi recalls the last time he saw her.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Not only did she win a Nobel prize; in her own country, she was appointed as a Senator for life, a great honor. But she took that job seriously and participated actively and with integrity. Not everyone appreciated that.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

After winning the Nobel prize, Rita Levi-Montalcini was not as shy as she had been prior to that moment. Because she stood out as a woman in a "man's world," she was able to use her unique position to make her mark, not only in the science world, but in society.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini doesn't feel like she made any sacrifices in her life, including not having a family. She had a clear vision of what she wanted out of life, and she followed it.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The formal, ceremonious aspect of the Nobel Prize awards was not what Rita Levi-Montalcini was used to, but she used that recognition to her advantage. Winning the Nobel Prize wasn't necessarily the high point in her career.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Because of the racial laws in Italy during the period of Fascism, many Jews left the country, including Rita Levi Montalcini. In Italy she wasn't allowed to work or publish papers, but somehow, she found a way to keep going.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

As a child, Rita Levi Montalcini was shy and insecure. Her father wanted her to get married and have children, but she had other plans for her life. She also had a twin sister who was an artist.

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