In 1963, Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in physics. She earned the prize for her work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.Maria Goeppert-Mayer wa...
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of the inner circle of nuclear physicists who developed the atomic fission bomb at the secret laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II. Through her theore...
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Maria Goeppert was born on June 28, 1906 in Kattowiz, Upper Silesia, then a part of Germany. Her father was a professor of pediatrics, the sixth generation of Goepperts to be university professors. Wh...
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer