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(māˈər), Louis Burt 1885-1957.
Russian-born American motion-picture producer who formed a film company (1918) and merged with Samuel Goldwyn to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1924). His productions include Ben Hur (1926) and Dinner at Eight (1933).
(mīˈər), Marie Goeppert 1906-1972.
German-born American physicist. She shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on the structure of the atom and its nucleus.