Maria Goeppert Mayer
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Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.
Mayer in 1963
Portrait of Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer walking into the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1963
Commemorative plaque for Maria Goeppert Mayer in Katowice
Edward Teller
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Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design.
Teller in 1958
Teller in his youth
The Hungarian passport Teller carried when he entered the United States in 1935.
Teller's ID badge photo from Los Alamos