Google Doodle celebrates physicist Ștefania Mărăcineanu’s 140th birthday

Today’s Google Doodle helps honor and celebrate trailblazing Romanian physicist Ștefania Mărăcineanu, on what would have been her 140th birthday.

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After graduating from the University of Bucharest with a degree in physical and chemical science in 1910

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the young scientist taught at various high schools in the city including the Central School for Girls

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While teaching, Mărăcineanu earned a scholarship from the Romanian Ministry of Science

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this eventually led to a graduate research position at the Radium Institute in Paris, France

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As one of the most prominent centers studying the effect of radiation and radioactivity

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Ștefania Mărăcineanu worked under the tutelage of physicist Marie Curie

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The young Romanian even began working on her PhD thesis on polonium, the very element that Curie had previously discovered.

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A physicist in every sense of the word, Mărăcineanu even dedicated time to researching artificial rain, heading to Algeria to test her results.

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