Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social

(I’m traveling, so I’m off by a day. Pretend this is yesterday.)

Physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

And because she is a woman she got her faculty job only after her Nobel.

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