Ștefania Mărăcineanu
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu was a Romanian physicist. She worked with Marie Curie and studied polonium, which was named for Curie's homeland. She made proposals that later lead to Irène Joliot-Curie's Nobel
Ștefania Mărăcineanu in 1913
Postage stamp of Romania from 2013. Erroneously shown as Mărăcineanu is a photograph of Marie Curie.
Irène Joliot-Curie
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Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. The couple a
Ștefania Mărăcineanu
…was a Romanian physicist. She worked with Marie Curie and studied polonium, which was named for Curie's homeland. She made proposals that later lead to Irène Joliot-Curie's Nobel Prize. Mărăcineanu believed that Joliot-Curie had taken her work on induced radioactivity to receive the prize. "I have great esteem for the…
Joliot-Curie in 1935
Irène (left), her mother and her sister Ève Curie
Irène and Marie Curie in 1925
Curie, c. 1920s