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Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer — “Winning the prize wasn’t half as exciting as doing the work itself.” | Inspirational science quotes by Nobel Prize Physics winner

Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer — “Winning the prize wasn’t half as exciting as doing the work itself.” | Inspirational science quotes by Nobel Prize Physics winner

Published: March 3, 2026 · The Times of India

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Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer: In 1963, only the second woman in history won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Maria Goeppert Mayer earned it for the nuclear shell model, a breakthrough in atomic structure and nuclear physi…