Isabel Zilhão

Research interests

• Popularization of science and technology;
• Popular science;
• Science in the European peripheries;
• Popularization of science for children.

Projects

• "Comunicar ciência e tecnologia em Portugal, 1900-1926: o papel da imprensa diária", post-doc project, Faculty of Science University of Lisbon, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/71036/2010), 2011-2014.

Publications (selection)

1. Isabel Zilhão, "A divulgação da ciência, da tecnologia e da medicina no Diário de Notícias (1900-1925) in Maria Paula Diogo e Ana Simões (coord. gerais), Ciência tecnologia e Medicina na construção de Portugal. Inovação e Contestação - Séc-XX (vol. 4). (Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2021): 93- 118.
2. Isabel Zilhão e Kristian Nielsen (guest editors), "Introduction - Worlds of science for young people," Themes British Journal for the History of Science, 2018, 3: 1-14. 
3. Isabel Zilhão, "Taking science to the countryside: fictionalizing the country through novels for young people in early twentieth century Portugal", Themes British Journal for the History of Science, 2018, 3: 73-103.
4. Isabel Zilhão, "The rise and fall of science for all: Science for children voiced by a Portuguese daily newspaper (1924–1933)", History of Science, 2014, 52: 454-488.
5. Isabel Zilhão, "Taking science to the Portuguese country side", 6th International Conference of the Eyuropean Society for the History of Science, Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014
6. Isabel Zilhão, "Baking knowledge: The part played by the Portuguese Popular University in bringing science to the working class (1919-1950), 9th STEP Meeting, Lisbon, 1-3 September 2014.
7. Isabel Zilhão, "O papel da popularização da ciência na circulação do conhecimento em Portugal. Dois estudos de caso", in Alice Santiago Faria, Pedro M.P. Raposo, eds., Mobilidade e circulação: perspectivas em História da Ciência e da Tecnologia (Lisboa: CIUHCT/CHAM, 2014), p. 77-86.
8. Isabel Zilhão, "Science for children voiced by a Portuguese daily newspaper (1924-1933)", HSS 2013 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 21-24 November 2013.
9. Ana Simões, Isabel Zilhão, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, "Halley turns Republican. How the Portuguese press presented the 1910 return of Halley’s comet", History of Science, 2013, 51: 199-219.
10. Isabel Zilhão, (Book review) Laurence Talairach-Vielmas ed., Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761-1901. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), Host: journal of history of science and technology, 2012, 6:113-115.