Google is celebrating the 140th birthday of the pioneering Romanian physicist, Stephania Mărăcineanu wot a special commemorative Doodle today, June 18.
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The design pays tribute to the scientist’s work on the chemical element, polonium, discovered by Marie Curie.
Stephanie Mărăcineanu was born in Bucharest on June 18, 1882, and enrolled at her home city’s university in 1907. She graduated three years later with a degree on physical and chemical science, and became a teacher.
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After working around Romania in 1915, Mărăcineanu took a post at the Central School for Girls in Bucharest, which she had attended as a child.
Despite Mărăcineanu’s doctoral dissertation indicating that she had made the discovery more than a decade earlier, her work was not acknowledged by Joliot-Curie.
It was recognised officially by the Academy of Sciences of Romania in 1936, but her role was ignored by the wider international scientific community.
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