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Maria Göppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, the first being Marie Curie in 1903. In 1986, the Maria Goe…
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science · German–American physicist (1906–1972) · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · scientist · also Maria Göppert Mayer, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Maria Göppert, Maria Göppert-Mayer, Maria Mayer, Maria G. Mayer
Born 28 June 1906 · Died 20 February 1972 · Q57100
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2024· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Celebrating the legacy of Maria Goeppert Mayer
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2022· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf, 1963
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2021· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Maria Goeppert Mayer with colleagues (IMAGE)
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2017· 3 entries
Hackaday: Maria Goeppert-Mayer: The Other Nobel Prize Winner
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Hackaday: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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The University of Chicago Chronicle: Ceremony honors Maria Goeppert-Mayer, legacy of UChicago physics
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2013· 1 entry
CU Boulder News & Events: Ana Maria Rey Wins MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
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2011· 1 entry
Was included in the third issuance of the American Scientists collection of US postage stamps, along with Melvin Calvin, Asa Gray, and Severo Ochoa
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1996).
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Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1995· 1 entry
Published “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 28,313 times.
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1986· 1 entry
The Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor
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1972· 2 entries
Died 1972-02-20.
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“Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.”
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1965· 1 entry
Won Golden Plate Award (1965).
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1963).
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Goeppert Mayer and Jensen shared one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
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1961· 1 entry
When two-photon-excited fluorescence was detected in a europium-doped crystal
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1960· 2 entries
Was appointed Full Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego
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Goeppert Mayer was appointed Full Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego
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1950· 1 entry
Titled Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure
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1946· 1 entry
Was also offered a part-time job there as a senior physicist in the theoretical physics division
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1941· 1 entry
Was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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1939· 1 entry
With the three of them and their families living in nearby Leonia, New Jersey
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1937· 1 entry
Moved to Columbia University, where she took an unpaid position
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1933· 1 entry
And many academics, including Born and Franck, lost their jobs
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1930· 2 entries
Göppert married Joseph Edward Mayer, an American Rockefeller fellow who was one of James Franck's assistants
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Studied at University of Göttingen, Doctor of Philosophy (1930).
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1921· 1 entry
Entered the Frauenstudium, a private high school run by suffragettes that aimed to prepare girls for university
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1910· 1 entry
Moved with her family to Göttingen, where her father, a sixth-generation university professor, was appointed Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Göttingen
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1906· 2 entries
In Kattowitz (now Katowice, Poland), Germany, the only child of paediatrician Friedrich Göppert and Maria Wolff
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Born 1906-06-28.
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