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Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions 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 in 1937 by the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). As a Jew, she became an émigr…
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science · Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Marietta Blau, Blau
Born 29 April 1894 · Died 27 January 1970 · Q87524
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Published “Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 1,850 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks” in Nature — cited 12,297 times.
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Published “The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations” in Journal of Economic Literature — cited 2,569 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Ribociclib as First-Line Therapy for HR-Positive, Advanced Breast Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,746 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,670 times.
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2009· 2 entries
Published “Long-Term Control of HIV by <i>CCR5</i> Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,591 times.
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Published “Silver Nanowire Networks as Flexible, Transparent, Conducting Films: Extremely High DC to Optical Conductivity Ratios” in ACS Nano — cited 1,523 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC” in Journal of Instrumentation — cited 1,692 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Published “Small but strong: A review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–polymer composites” in Carbon — cited 3,711 times.
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1970· 1 entry
Died 1970-01-27.
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1967).
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1962).
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Received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but an attempt to make her also a corresponding member of the academy was not successful
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1960· 2 entries
Where she was awarded the ÖAW Erwin Schrödinger Prize
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Blau returned to Austria and conducted scientific work at the Institute for Radium Research until 1964 – again without pay
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1950· 1 entry
Cecil Powell received the Nobel Prize in Physics for work (partially) based on the work of Blau, specifically the development of the photographic film method for particle detection and the discovery of the meson
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1938· 1 entry
And because of the subsequent annexation she couldn't return; the following day, the Anschluss was complete—Hitler had annexed Austria
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1937· 3 entries
Awarded Lieben Prize (1937).
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And Wambacher discovered "disintegration stars" in photographic plates that had been exposed to cosmic radiation at an altitude of 2,300 metres (≈7,500 feet) above sea level, a height they attained at a research stat
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By the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Haitinger Prize (1936).
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1921· 1 entry
Moved to Berlin to work at a manufacturer of x-ray tubes, a position she left to become an assistant at the Institute for Medical Physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-04-29.
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