Maria Goeppert-Mayer - In Honor of Women's History Month
Shortly after Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin presented her work on the sun in 1925, Maria Goeppert-Mayer was beginning to make her own waves in physics. After receiving her Ph.D. in physics in her home country of Germany, Maria and her new husband Joseph moved to Baltimore, where he had just been given a position as a professor. Maria also wanted to teach but was not allowed, only being given a job as an assistant working in a makeshift laboratory in a small attic.