Maria Goeppert Mayer was a notable physicist whose contributions to the field of nuclear physics are highly regarded. Born in 1906 in Germany, she demonstrated an early aptitude for science, eventually leading her to pursue studies in physics. Mayer's groundbreaking work in the 1940s on the shell model of the nucleus significantly advanced the understanding of atomic structure. She became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which recognized...