Ștefania Mărăcineanu

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Ștefania Mărăcineanu was a Romanian physicist. She was born on June 18, 1882, and died on August 15, 1944, in Bucharest Romania.

She dedicated most of her life to researching artificial rain, which included trips to Africa to test her results. This got her to connect links between alpha rays and polonium and the transfer of some atoms of the metal into radioactive isotopes. It was at Sorbonne University in Paris that she ended her Ph.D. program.

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The Google Doodle for 18 June features Ștefania Mărăcineanu on the occasion of her 140th birth anniversary. But who was the Romanian physicist?

Considered a pioneer of radioactivity, she studied radioactivity with renowned Polish physicist Marie Curie – who was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – in 1919 at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). After receiving her PhD from the Radium Institute, Mărăcineanu worked with Curie till 1926. According to an entry on the Digital Mechanism and Gear Library website (www.dmg-lib.org), Mărăcineanu is considered Romania's first prominent physicist. But who was Ștefania Mărăcineanu. Born in 1882 in Bucharest, Mărăcineanu îs renowned for her work and research on radioactivity.

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Ștefania Mărăcineanu made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of artificial radioactivity without receiving international recognition.

She retired in 1942 and died in Bucharest on 15 August 1944 at the age of 62. She conducted research into artificial rain and around the link between earthquakes and rainfall. The physicist became Director of Research of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1937, and Associate Professor in 1941.

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Ștefania Mărăcineanu - One of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity, Mărăcineanu formed Romania's first laboratory for study ...

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Later, she received a scholarship from the Romanian Ministry of Science. However, she continued her studies at the Radium Institute in Paris.

The primary laboratory of the Radium Institute, where Maracineanu used to research is now called Curie Museum in Paris. Under Maracineanu, the country’s first laboratory for the research of radioactivity was established. She is popularly known for the discovery of radioactivity.

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- In 1907, she enrolled at the University of Bucharest, and three years later in 1910, she graduated with a physical and chemical science degree. - Later, she went to Sorbonne University in Paris to finish her PhD in physics, and she earned it in just two years, a mindboggling feat in itself. After completing her graduation, she worked as a teacher at high schools in Bucharest, Ploiesti, Iasi, and Campulung. Later, she got a job as a teacher at the Central School for Girls in Bucharest, and she worked there till 1940. The Curie Museum in Paris contains the original chemical laboratory in the Radium Institute, where Maracineanu worked. She expressed her dejection at the fact that Irene Curie used a large part of her work observations regarding artificial radioactivity, without mentioning it. Some sources claim that she is buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest, though there is no veracity to this claim. - Maracineanu also researched artificial rain, which included a trip to Algeria to test her results. Her research led to what is most likely the first example of artificial radioactivity. - She was born on June 18, 1882, in Bucharest and her parents Sebastian Maracineanu and Sevastia were very young at the time of her birth. She completed high school at the Central School for Girls in Bucharest. The Romanian physicist was one of the pioneering women in the discovery of artificial radioactivity." New Delhi: Google on Saturday celebrated the 140th birth anniversary of Stefania Maracineanu, a Romanian physicist who was one of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity, with a Google Doodle. The official Twitter handle of Google Doodles posted, "Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates Stefania Maracineanu's 140th birthday.