In nineteen sixty-three, Maria Goeppert-Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics along with two other scientists.

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Joseph Mayer and Maria Goeppert moved to the United States in nineteen thirty.

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But Maria Goeppert-Mayer worked without pay as a volunteer.

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In addition, four of the nuclear scientists who came to the United States from Europe in the 1930s later received a Nobel Prize for physics: Felix Bloch, born in Switzerland, won it in 1952, Emilio Segre (Italy) won in 1959, and Maria Mayer (Poland) and Eugene Wigner (Hungary) won the award in 1963.

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