Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau · Science & Medicine
Physicist who developed the photographic emulsion method for detecting particles, the technique behind decades of cosmic-ray and particle discoveries
29 April 1894, Vienna, Austria — 27 January 1970, Vienna, Austria
Austria · Norway · Mexico · United States
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Marietta Blau was born in Vienna to a Jewish family and worked for years at the Institute for Radium Research without a salaried post. With Hertha Wambacher she developed photographic emulsions sensitive enough to record the tracks of individual particles, and in 1937 found the first 'disintegration stars' produced by cosmic rays — the method that later brought Cecil Powell a Nobel Prize. Driven out of Austria by the Anschluss in 1938, she continued in Oslo, Mexico and the United States. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times and never received it.
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Physicist who developed the photographic emulsion method for detecting particles, the technique behind decades of cosmic-ray and particle discoveries
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