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

educated at: University of Göttingen

academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
end time: 1930
employer: Argonne National Laboratory

end time: 1959
start time: 1946

University of California, San Diego

start time: 1960
end time: 1972

Sarah Lawrence College

start time: 1941
end time: 1942

Los Alamos National Laboratory

start time: 1945

Johns Hopkins University

end time: 1939
start time: 1930

Columbia University
member of: American Philosophical Society

start time: 1964

Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

start time: 1950

National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1956

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society
field of work: photochemistry
nuclear physics
statistical mechanics
physics
radioactivity
physical chemistry
quantum mechanics
theoretical physics
occupation: scientist
physicist
university teacher
nuclear physicist
doctoral student: Steven Moszkowski
Robert G. Sachs
notable work: nuclear shell model
work location: San Diego

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