«Greison portrays the fictionalized life of six brave women of science of the 1900s that, despite overwhelming difficulties, have left a mark in the field of science and made an impact on humanity.»
——Alessio Cozzolino, Corriere della Sera

«On a total of five hundred Nobel Prize winners, only eleven are women scientists. This alone demonstrates that the road ahead is still long. (…) For this reason Gabriella Greison decided to gather in a book the stories of six women that changed the world, six great physicists that made history.»
——Cristina De Stefano, La Repubblica

«The author wants us to understand how these women’s real vicissitudes – personal and professional – can ‘represent something other’ and be somehow meaningful for generations to come.»
——Eva Grippa, D La Repubblica

«In the past two years Greison, a journalist, has become a phenomenon on both the online and the offline scenes.»
——Marianna Rizzini, Il Foglio

«The author structures the book – an homage to its heroines – in an original and intriguing way: six shorts novels.»
——Giulia Ciarapica, Il Foglio

«Six stories of women that had to fight strenuously to affirm their individuality.»
——Domenico Ribatti, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno

«A book that literally shines, starting from the cover.»
——Alberto Mosconi, Galileo

★This is the collection of the works of Gabriela Grayson, an Italian physicist and popular science writer known as the “star of physics”. She specializes in educating the public about physics and its important tasks in a variety of unique forms, from imaginary conversations with well-known and familiar physicists to exploring forgotten names in the history of physics. Her works have attracted a wide audience with their enjoyment and legibility.
★Simplified Chinese copyright of I Will Kill Schrödinger’s Cat has been sold! Amazon Italy 5 stars recommended! A novel that explains quantum physics to everyone!
★Six Women Who Changed the World Amazon Italy Best Sellers Physics Class No.1! Biography (Kindle Store) No.1! It tells the story of six remarkable women in physics, six world-changing scientific achievements, and six fascinating stories. Women’s wisdom and ability can not be ignored, and the experience of these six female scientists has inspired more women to pursue freedom, independence and scientific dreams!
★A Quantum Guide for Nonconformists explains to Newton and to all of us Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Schrdinger’s cat paradox, the double-slit experiment and quantum entanglement, wave-particle duality and the catastrophe of ultraviolet light.
★Everything Is Connected Amazon Italy Best Sellers Physics Class No.5! This book tells a true, incredible story about Pauli and Jung, about quantum physics and synchronicity, about the mind and love, and how everything is connected beyond ordinary.
★The Woman Behind the Atomic Bomb tells the forgotten story of Leona Woods, the physicist who worked with Oppenheimer to build the atomic bomb.

The collection includes 5 books:
I Will Kill Schrödinger’s Cat
A Quantum Guide for Nonconformists: Journey into Physics that Newton Disapproves
Everything Is Connected. Pauli, Jung, Quantum Physics, Synchronicity, Love and All the Rest
Six Women Who Changed the World. The Great Scientists Who Revolutionized Physics
The Woman Behind the Atomic Bomb

★Six lives in a compelling narration.
★Six extraordinary women.
★Six short novels you’ll be happy to get lost in.

Marie Curie (1867-1934), Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Emmy Noether (1882-1935), Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Mileva Marić (1875-1948). These are the magnificent six. Except for Marie Curie their names are essentially unknown to the general reading public. They are just ordinary women names.

These women were all born within a lapse of fifty years and they worked through the most crucial and roaring years of the twentieth century, years of atrocious wars (which they experienced first-hand), and of great advancement in sciences. These women advanced sciences.

There’s a Polish chemist who could not attend university, the Jewish physicist whom the Nazis hated, the German mathematician whom nobody loved, the English crystallographer whose discoveries were snatched, the Hollywood star who became a military engineer and the Serbian theorist overshadowed by her husband.

So what about Hedy Lamarr? Wasn’t she an actress? Yes, she was an actress. The Hollywood diva, the first full nudity in the history of cinema (1929), defined by all sides the most beautiful woman in the world before Marilyn Monroe. But she was also an engineer, and a talented one. She invented modern wireless communication, the very one we use with our phones.

Of course, the six heroines presented by Gabriella Greison are not the only six women in sciences, but, with their will, their skills, their talent and hard work, they paved the way for fellow women scientists to come in an all-men world. They gave us their discoveries. But they also made us aware of the fact that women could, in fact had to, be allowed to choose science as their career. Their centuries-long banishment has already come at a very high price for humankind.

Six terrific stories, with a touch of fairytale. They are not always cheerful stories, they do not always have a happy ending, because they are real stories, of achievements and failures. We laugh and cry, as should be.

For all this we have to thank our six magnificent women: Marie, Lise, Emmy, Rosalind, Hedy e Mileva. Thank you.

With the L’incredibile cena dei fisici quantistici ([The incredible dinner of quantum physicists] Salani, 2016, 30.000 copies sold), Gabriella Greison has become a star of popularization in Italy. Her Monologo quantistico [Quantum monologue] has been staged in theatres throughout the country. Her way of popularizing physics has set a landmark.

Gabriella Greison is a physicist, a writer and a professional journalist. After completing a MA degree in Physics at Milan University, she worked at Paris École Polytechnique for two years. She has collaborated with several research institutes and scientific museums and she has contributed to several magazines and dailies. At the moment she is scriptwriter and host of the TV show Pillole di fisica [Physics 101], a weekly show on RaiNews24. Her latest book, The incredible dinner of quantum physicists has been published in 2016. She’s been recently staging her play 1927. Quantum Monologue, where she focuses on the humane side of twentieth-century physics who made history. The play is always highly demanded throughout the country.

She is the author of ten educational books on quantum mechanics, the history of physics, and the great women scientists in history, three topics that are very close to her heart. Among these publications, L’incredibile cena dei fisici quantistici, Sei donne che hanno cambiato il mondo, Ucciderò il gatto di Schrödinger, and Guida quantistica per anticonformisti.