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Maria Goeppert Mayer

As the only child of a sixth-generation academic, Maria Goeppert Mayer was expected to go to university. “My father said, ‘Don’t grow up to be a woman,’ and what he meant by that was, a housewife.” But in Göttingen, Germany, in the early 1900s, girls didn’t have many educational options. The one school for girls closed a year before Goeppert Mayer was due to graduate. She took the university entrance exam anyway – and passed – along with just four other girls. When she enrolled in university in

Women who changed science: Maria Goeppert Mayer