Ștefania Mărăcineanu

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.