!!!Blau, Marietta

b. Vienna, April 29, 1894, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 27, 1970, nuclear physicist. Developed photographic 
plates to prove the existence of corpuscular radiation, discovered 
demolition stars, i.e. explosions of atomic nuclei caused by cosmic 
rays. 1933 spent one semester in Paris working with Marie Curie, 1938 
emigration, 1939 professor at the Mexico City University of Technology 
(through the help of A. Einstein). 1950 research work using the 
accelerator at the National Laboratory Brookhaven, from 1955 taught in 
Miami, 1960 return to the Vienna Institute of Radiology.

!Literature
W. Reiter, M. B., in: F. Stadler (ed.), Vertriebene 
Vernunft 2, 1988.



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