Maria Goeppert Mayer(1906)
PhysicsMaria Goeppert-Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist whose work on the structure of the atomic nucleus led to the development of the nuclear shell model. For this discovery she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D.
Germany
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Major Awards
15
Publications
841
Citations
8
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Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Nobel Prize in Physics
1963for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
University of California, San DiegoMost Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#6
Statistical Mechanics (G. V. Schulz)
Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung Section A-a Journal of Physical Sciences(1950)
0
citations
#8
Lattice Summations for Hexagonal Close‐Packed Crystals
Journal of Chemical Physics(1940)
19
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Recent Publications
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8citations
Puzzles and paradoxes
Mathematical Gazette1966
33citations
Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions in Nuclear Spectroscopy
Physical Review1960
17citations
Statistical Mechanics (G. V. Schulz)
Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung Section A-a Journal of Physical Sciences1950
0citations
On the Binding Energy of the Triton
Physical Review1948
4citations
Lattice Summations for Hexagonal Close‐Packed Crystals
Journal of Chemical Physics1940
19citations
Calculations on a New Neutron-Proton Interaction Potential
Physical Review1938
27citations
Calculations of the Lower Excited Levels of Benzene
Journal of Chemical Physics1938
446citations
Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
University of Göttingen(Doctor of Philosophy)
Doctoral Advisors
Career Timeline
Columbia University?–present
Johns Hopkins University1930–1939
Sarah Lawrence College1941–1942
Los Alamos National Laboratory1945–present
Argonne National Laboratory1946–1959
University of California, San Diego1960–1972
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
JB
John Bardeen
Japan Prize (1985)
JC
John Clarke
Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
MH
Michel H. Devoret
Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
JM
John M. Martinis
Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)
GE
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Nobel Prize in Physics (2024)
JJ
John J. Hopfield
Nobel Prize in Physics (2024)
FK
Ferenc Krausz
Nobel Prize in Physics (2023)
AL
Anne L'Huillier
Nobel Prize in Physics (2023)
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