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Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, after Marie Curie.

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Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Effectiveness, Exciting, Half, Winning

My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife. . . without any interests.

Father, Growing Up, Said, Woman

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Man, Math, Men, Mind, Nature, Puzzle

The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.

Data, Different, Looking, Science, Ways

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