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| | Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Biography |
 | | Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906, in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the only child of Friedrich Goeppert and his wife Maria, nee Wolff. |
 | | Maria Goeppert finally took the abitur examination in Hannover, in 1924, being examined by teachers she had never seen in her life. |
 | | Urey usually assigned her not to the main line of research of the laboratory, but to side issues, for instance, to the investigation of the possibility of separating isotopes by photochemical reactions. |
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