May·er (m   r), 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). |
May·er (m r), 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. |
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1. (Biographies / (German)) Julius Robert von (ˈjuːliʊsˈroːbɛrt fɔn). 1814-78, German physicist whose research in thermodynamics (1842) contributed to the discovery of the law of conservation of energy
2. (Biographies) Louis B(urt). 1885-1957, US film producer, born in Russia; founder and first head (1924-48) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film company
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| Noun | 1. |  Mayer - United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972) |
| 2. | Mayer - United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957) |
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