Google honours Romanian physicist Ștefania Mărăcineanu on her140th birthday

Romanian physicist Ștefania Mărăcineanu has been honoured on her 140th birth anniversary in the form of a Google Doodle on Saturday. One of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity, Mărăcineanu formed Romania’s first laboratory for study of Radioactivity after returning from the Astronomical Observatory in Meudon.

Listed below are her major works as a physicist:

1. Mărăcineanu’s work led to what is most likely the first example of artificial radioactivity. She also dedicated a major part of her life in researching on artificial rain.

2.She researched upon the link between earthquakes and rainfall, making her the first one to report that a significant increase of radioactivity in the Earth’s epicentre leads to an earthquake.