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Alternate Title: Overcome with Emulsion

Emma tells Emlyn all about Marietta Blau, the physicist that developed photographic emulsion technology in order to discover and describe subatomic particles and their behavior! 

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Sources

Main Story - Marietta Blau

1. Perlmutter, A.. “Marietta Blau's Work After World War II.” arXiv: History and Philosophy of Physics (2001). https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110028 


2. Sime, Ruth L. “Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics.” Physics in Perspective (2013).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-012-0097-6


3. McArdle, James.  January 27: Exposed. On This Day in Photography. 2018.


4. Interview of Leopold Halpern by Maria Rentetzi on 1999 March 5, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/32406  

Women who Work 

• G. Casetta, A.P. Nolfo and E. Palagi. Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo. Animal Behaviour. Vol. 174, April 2021, p. 149. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.010.


• “Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups’ movements” by Jake Buehler, Sciencenews.com. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lion-yawn-contagious-synchronize-group-movement-hunt 

Music 

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

Cover Image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marietta_Blau.jpg