There are two women who have won the Nobel Prize in physics. Most people can name one: Marie Curie. This page is about the other woman, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who is equally awesome and deserves far more recognition. Goeppert-Mayer is a tribute to the geek spirit: working for the joy of the work. We cannot retroactively pay her what she deserved (for one thing, she died in 1972!), but we can recognize and remember her and her work now. * Wikipedia: Maria Goeppert-Mayer * Nobel biography: Maria Goeppert-Mayer