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Marietta Blau

1894 - 1970

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Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was an Austrian physicist credited with developing photographic nuclear emulsions that were usefully able 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 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. As a Jew, she was forced to flee Austria when Nazi Germany annexed it in 1938, eventually making her way to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marietta Blau has received more than 64,913 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Marietta Blau is the 454th most popular physicist (down from 406th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Austria (down from 512th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marietta Blau ranks 454 out of 851. Before her are Hagen Kleinert, Louis Harold Gray, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Boris Podolsky, Erich Hückel, and Alan Guth. After her are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Berta Karlik, William Watson, Jules Jamin, Rashid Sunyaev, and Giovanni Aldini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Marietta Blau ranks 108. Before her are C. R. Swart, Ángel Romano, Jerzy Neyman, Tivadar Soros, Khawaja Nazimuddin, and Évariste Lévi-Provençal. After her are Boris Pilnyak, Max Weinreich, David Butler, Henry Hazlitt, Eduard Wagner, and Pavel Rybalko. Among people deceased in 1970, Marietta Blau ranks 110. Before her are Leah Goldberg, Friedrich Pollock, Alfred Newman, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Marlen Haushofer, and Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow. After her are Fernand Crommelynck, Hugh Dowding, Romaine Brooks, Alexander Gode, Unica Zürn, and Félix Gaillard.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 550 out of 1,424. Before her are Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882), Fritz Heider (1896), Franz Klammer (1953), Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732), and Josef Frank (1885). After her are Fred Sinowatz (1929), Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Berta Karlik (1904), Josef Krips (1902), Ernst Fuchs (1930), and Karl Koller (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 12. Before her are Victor Francis Hess (1883), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), and Fritjof Capra (1939). After her are Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Julius Wess (1934), and Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795).

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