Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau was born on April 29, 1894. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was an Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly advancing the field of particle physics in her time. For this, she was awarded the Lieben Prize in 1937 by the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). As a Jew, she became an émigré from Austria because of the 1938 Nazi Anschluss (annexe), her research continuing from Oslo, on to Mexico and the United States of America before eventually…