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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
* 1906 in Kattowitz/Upper Silesia
+ 1972 in San Diego, Kalifornien
1963 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with
J. Hans D. Jensen
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist,
and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie.
burial place of the parents
Stadtfriedhof Göttingen
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