Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber ( July 14 , 1911 – February 2 , 1998 ) was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist . She earned her PhD . from the University of Munich , and though her family suffered during The Holocaust , Gertrude was able to escape to London and later to the United States . Her research during World War II was classified , and not published until 1946 . She and her husband , Maurice Goldhaber , spent most of their post-war careers at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber