Austrian research chemist Edith Kroupa, 1934. The original caption dated September 18, 1934, reads: "While revolution upset Vienna, Miss Edith Kroupa, research chemist working with a new method of microchemical analysis in the laboratory of Prof. A. Franke at the University of Vienna, analyzed a sample of radioactive rock from near Winnipeg, Canada," determining it to be over 1,725,000,000 years old. Earlier that same year, Kroupa and her colleague Friedrich Hecht had discovered triple-weight hydrogen