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Maria Goeppert Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer

19061972

German-born American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

19062002

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter who earned seven Academy Awards and shaped classical Hollywood cinema

Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain

19061979

Jewish-German-born British biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of penicillin

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

19061975

American-born French dancer, singer, actress, military officer, and civil rights advocate, renowned as the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture