I did not set out to win a Nobel Prize.

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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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