Here's why we're making a science tarot deck
It's not a typical tool for science engagement, but we think it has potential
Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms
She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit
Even 300 years later, Maria Margaretha Winkelmann Kirch is denied credit for her work