Maria Goeppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
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- Fame69.0
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- Scientists rank#94
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GermanyShe cracked the structure of the atomic nucleus — why protons and neutrons arrange themselves in stable shells — and shared the 1963 Nobel for it, sixty years after Marie Curie and still only the second woman to win the physics prize.
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Maria Goeppert came out of Göttingen with a doctoral thesis on two-photon absorption, a phenomenon so remote from experiment that it waited for the laser age to be verified; the unit of measure now carries her name. She married chemist Joseph Edward Mayer and followed him to Johns Hopkins, where nepotism rules barred her from faculty rank but not from publishing a landmark paper on double beta decay in 1935. Columbia gave her an unpaid position; the war gave her Manhattan Project work on isotope separation and a stint at Los Alamos on thermonuclear weapons with Edward Teller. After 1945 she la…
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