Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) with daughter Marianne, summer 1935. Mayer 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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