Google Honors Physicist Stefania Maracineanu With Doodle On Her 140th Birthday

Stefania Maracineanu was commemorated with a whimsical Google Doodle for her 140th birthday on June 18. Stefania Maracineanu was a Romanian physicist who worked at the Radium Institute in Paris under the direction of world-renowned scientist Marie Curie. She died in 1944 from cancer, which was allegedly caused by her exposure to radioactive substances. According to Google, the woman was a pioneer in the discovery and investigation of radioactivity.