Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
German-born American physicist (1906-1972) who proposed the nuclear shell model explaining why certain nucleon numbers are especially stable. She was the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics (1963).
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