Maria Goeppert Mayer with group (IMAGE)

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Maria Goeppert Mayer with group

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Maria Goeppert Mayer was a physicist at Argonne who developed the nuclear shell model theory, a pivotal discovery that won her a Nobel Prize in 1963.

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(Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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