On this day November 10th, 1963, Maria Mayer became the first American woman and second woman ever, to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Her working life was indicative of the strictures many women have suffered toward achievement in a male dominated field.
Maria Mayer
November 11, 2009 by roofingbird
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