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Maria Goeppert Mayer

German-born american theoretical physicist (1906-1972).

Born June 28th, 1906 in Katowice.

Died February 20th, 1972 at 65 years old in San Diego (circulatory collapse).

Occupations
nuclear physicist, physicist, university teacher

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks