Fact 1
She was one of several girls who passed the university entrance exam a year early, at the age of 17.
Fact 2
Though her thesis was unproven at the time, in 1961, the development of the laser provided verification, naming the two-photon cross section Goeppert Mayer.
Fact 3
Her husband obtained a job at Johns Hopkins, but she could not officially work there since they did not hire relatives.
was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science
was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.
Was a German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of X-ray crystallography which helps in determining the arrangement of atoms in some substances.
An Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics.
was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics
Was an English biochemist recognized as the father of British biochemistry for his invaluable contribution to this field.
was a British chemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography
Was an American biologist known for his extensive work in species variation among many other scientific breakthroughs.
was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.