1894 - 1970
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 54,670 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Marietta Blau is the 406th most popular physicist (up from 493rd in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Austria (up from 593rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Marietta Blau ranks 406 out of 717. Before her are Victor Weisskopf, John Kerr, Hagen Kleinert, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Walther Meissner, and Jurij Vega. After her are Gabriele Veneziano, Carlo Matteucci, Louis Harold Gray, Samuel Goudsmit, Auguste Bravais, and Douglas Hofstadter.
1908 - 2002
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 400
1824 - 1907
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 401
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 402
1687 - 1744
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 403
1882 - 1974
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 404
1754 - 1802
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 405
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 406
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 407
1811 - 1868
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 408
1905 - 1965
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 409
1902 - 1978
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 410
1811 - 1863
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 411
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 412
Among people born in 1894, Marietta Blau ranks 101. Before her are Ottavio Bottecchia, Max Weinreich, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Alexander Lippisch, Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, and Friedrich Pollock. After her are Frans G. Bengtsson, Nedo Nadi, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Warren Weaver, Ángel Romano, and Maria Restituta Kafka. Among people deceased in 1970, Marietta Blau ranks 100. Before her are Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Romaine Brooks, Jacques Pills, Ludolf von Alvensleben, Luis Mariano, and Friedrich Pollock. After her are Amadeo Bordiga, Maria Yudina, Unica Zürn, Café Filho, Folco Lulli, and Agustín Lara.
1894 - 1927
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 95
1894 - 1969
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 96
1894 - 1917
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 97
1894 - 1976
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 98
1894 - 1918
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 99
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 100
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 101
1894 - 1954
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 102
1894 - 1940
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 103
1894 - 1968
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 104
1894 - 1978
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 105
1894 - 1972
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 106
1894 - 1943
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 107
1903 - 1970
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 94
1874 - 1970
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 95
1906 - 1970
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 96
1901 - 1970
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 97
1914 - 1970
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 98
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 99
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 100
1889 - 1970
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 101
1899 - 1970
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 102
1916 - 1970
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 103
1899 - 1970
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 104
1912 - 1970
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 105
1897 - 1970
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 106
Among people born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 514 out of 1,237. Before her are Iuliu Maniu (1873), Walter Mischel (1930), Maria von Trapp (1905), Karl Menger (1902), Johann Nestroy (1801), and Conchita Wurst (1988). After her are Peter Alexander (1926), Hermann Maier (1972), Irmfried Eberl (1910), Ernst Fuchs (1930), Fred Sinowatz (1929), and Philipp Frank (1884).
1873 - 1953
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 508
1930 - 2018
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 509
1905 - 1987
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 510
1902 - 1985
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 511
1801 - 1862
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 512
1988 - Present
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 513
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 514
1926 - 2011
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 515
1972 - Present
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 516
1910 - 1948
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 517
1930 - 2015
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 518
1929 - 2008
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 519
1884 - 1966
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 520
Among physicists born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 11. Before her are Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), Walter Kohn (1923), and Victor Weisskopf (1908). After her are Anton Zeilinger (1945), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Berta Karlik (1904), Julius Wess (1934), and Sulamith Goldhaber (1923).
1803 - 1853
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 5
1883 - 1964
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 6
1904 - 1979
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 7
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 8
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 9
1908 - 2002
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 10
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 12
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 13
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 15
1934 - 2007
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 16
1923 - 1965
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 17