The famous letter of the renowned astronomer Caroline Herschel to Mary Sommerville mentions some of her "lost" and "forgotten" sister scientists of the past. The book tells the lives of these twenty female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians, spanning over a period of about 4000 years. Each of these biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which includes a section setting the life in the appropriate historical background, her main works, some curious facts, and some citations about her. This book tells the lives of twenty female scientists,...

This book highlights the different aspects of the research project “E4C Horizon 2020 European Project” aimed at fighting the coronavirus by combining the best supercomputing resources and artificial intelligence with state-of-the-art experimental facilities up through clinical validation.Coronavirus disease has become an important public issue across the globe since December 2019. There is an urgent need to develop potent anti-COVID-19 agents for the prevention of the outbreak and stop viral infections.To this aim, a public–private consortium composed by European and national...