Maria Göppert Mayer - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1963
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Maria Göppert Mayer

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1963
for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
Together with: Eugene Paul Wigner, Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
Citizenship
GermanyGermanyUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
German, English
date of birth
6/28/1906
place of birth
Katowice
date of death
2/20/1972
place of death
San Diego
Lived
65 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • scientist
field of work
  • physical chemistry
  • radioactivity
  • theoretical physics
  • photochemistry
  • statistical mechanics
  • physics
  • nuclear physics
  • quantum mechanics
educated at
  • University of Göttingen
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1930
employer
  • Sarah Lawrence College
    • start time: 1941
    • end time: 1942
  • Johns Hopkins University
    • start time: 1930
    • end time: 1939
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • start time: 1945
  • Columbia University
  • University of California, San Diego
    • start time: 1960
    • end time: 1972
  • Argonne National Laboratory
    • start time: 1946
    • end time: 1959
work location
  • San Diego
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1956
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1964
  • American Physical Society
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1950
doctoral student
  • Steven Moszkowski
  • Robert G. Sachs
notable work
  • nuclear shell model
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