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Maria Goeppert Mayer

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Gender Female
Death51 years ago
Date of birth June 28,1906
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Katowice
Poland
Date of died February 20,1972
DiedSan Diego
California
United States
NationalityAmerican
German
BooksElementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure
Job Educator
Theoretical Physicist
Education University of Göttingen
Children Peter Conrad Mayer
Maria Mayer
Maria Mayer Wentzel
Spouse Joseph Edward Mayer
Parents Friedrich Göppert
Maria Wolff
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics
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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.

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