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# Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second

##  Quotes by Maria Goeppert-Mayer

> [Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-goeppert-mayer/winning-the-prize-wasn-t-half-as-exciting-as-doing-the-work-itself/)

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[Effectiveness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effectiveness/)

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> [My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-goeppert-mayer/my-father-said-don-t-grow-up-to-be-a-woman-and-what-he-meant-by-that/)

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[Father](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father/)

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> [The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-goeppert-mayer/the-shell-model-although-proposed-by-theoreticians-really-corresponds/)

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[Approach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/approach/)

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