Maria Mayer, who won a Nobel prize for researching the structure of the nucleus, once served as an instructor at Columbia University, where her husband also taught. Because of university regulations about a husband and wife working together, she received no salary at all.
因研究原子核結構而獲諾貝爾獎的梅爾夫人，曾在哥倫比亞大學任教，卻因學校規定夫妻在一起工作，只付先生一人的薪水，只好做白工。