By Joseph P. Ferry, Chelsea House Publishers, Jill Sideman
A biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist who contributed to the advance of the atomic bomb and who, in 1963, was once cowinner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for her paintings at the nuclear shell version conception.
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