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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1963 Physics

* 1906 in Kattowitz/Upper Silesia

+ 1972 in San Diego, Kalifornien

   

Maria
                Goeppert-Mayer

1963 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with J. Hans D. Jensen

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist.
Doctorate 1930 in Göttingen by Max Born, James Franck, Richard Courant, and Alfred Windaus.
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.




Maria
        Goeppert-Mayer      Maria Göppert-Mayer Göttingen

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Stadtfriedhof Göttingen

meine Fotos 2.9.2022


Maria Goeppert Mayer Nobelpreis 1963

Göttingen, Hermann-Föge-Weg 7

mein Foto 30.10.2025


Maria
                Goeppert Mayer Nobelpreis 1963

mein Foto 30.10.2025


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