
She wasn’t given a title. So she took a Nobel instead. At a time when women wer…
She wasn’t given a title. So she took a Nobel instead. At a time when women were told science wasn’t meant for them, Maria Goeppert Mayer changed physics forever—from borrowed labs and cramped basement offices. Born in 1906 in Germany, Maria earned her Ph.D. in physics and moved to the U.S. with her husband. But […]