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Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobelist in Physics

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The Supercomputer Center of the University of California at San Diego offers details of the life of Maria Goeppert-Mayer, third woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Instructive in the obstacles to being a woman in a scholarly scientific field in the mid-20th century.

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