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	Nobelist Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1906-1972
		Maria Goeppert Mayer, on Argonne's staff for 15 years, studied theoretical physics under Nobel Laureate Max Born at Göttingen University in Germany.
		Goeppert Mayer would not hold a paying, full university professorship until she was 53.
		Maria Goeppert Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics for her research on the shell model of the atomic nucleus.
	www.anl.gov /Science_and_Technology/History/mgm.html (471 words)

	Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Göppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was born Maria Göppert in Katowice (then in Germany, now part of Poland) and became one of the few women to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.
		From a young age, Maria was surrounded by the students and lecturers from the University, intellectuals including future Nobel winners, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli.
		Maria postulated, against the received wisdom of the time, that the nucleus is like a series of closed shells and pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Goeppert-Mayer (791 words)

	CWP at physics.UCLA.edu // Goeppert-Mayer
		Maria Goeppert Mayer was an accomplished physicist from the beginning of her career until the end and she made numerous contributions to the field of physics.
		Mayer and Herzefeld were the first to study the effect of magnetic susceptibility on the refractive index of a gas.
		Mayer and Sachs pioneered the application of the new idea of a Yukawa potential between neutron and proton to the nuclear two-body system.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~cwp/Phase2/Mayer,_Maria_Goeppert@844444444.html (454 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.50 (1979)
		Maria Goeppert was attracted to mathematics very early and planned to prepare for the University, but there was no public institution in Gottingen serving to prepare girls for this pur- pose.
		MARIA GOEPPERT MAYER 323 publication she learned of a paper by other physicists presenting a different attempt at an explanation and, as a courtesy, she asked the Editor of the Physical Review to hold her brief Letter to the Editor in order that it appear in the same issue as that paper.
		Maria Mayer and Jensen were not acquainted with one an- other at the time, and they did not meet until her visit to Germany in 1950.
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	Encyclopedia: Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there are either 2,8,20,28,50,82,126, nucleons in the nucleus of an atom then the atom is extremely stable.
		Maria was quoted as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work." Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 - February 11, 1973) was a German physicist.
		Maria female name, in Italian, Romanian, Danish Maria is the plural of mare, a geological feature on the Moon.
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	Maria Goeppert-Mayer: Nobelist in Physics
		Maria attended a small private school that prepared girls for the university entrance exams.
		Maria married physical chemist Joseph E. Mayer in 1930 and together they moved to Baltimore, where Joe was a professor at Johns Hopkins.
		Maria worked at the Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and at the Argonne National Laboratory.
	www.sdsc.edu /ScienceWomen/mayer.html (509 words)

	Effect on twentith century
		Maria Goeppert was born on June 28, 1906, in Kattowitz, Germany (now Poland).
		Maria joined this group and offered her knowledge of chemical physics to the development of the atomic bomb.
		Maria secretly hoped that the development of the atomic bomb would never succeed, and she wept when the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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		Maria Goeppert was born in Silesia,Poland, on June 28, 1906.
		Maria wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the decay of excited states by the simultaneous emission of two quanta.
		It was in Göttingen that Maria met Joe Mayer, a theoretical chemist from the United States on a fellowship.
	www.math.uni-goettingen.de /exchange/newsletter/2002-10/MariaGoeppert.html (359 words)

	A Life of Dedication - Maria Goeppert Mayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her father was a professor of Pediatrics, and she grew up hearing that he was the sixth generation of university professors in the family.
		The school closed unexpectedly before Maria completed the three years of study normally required for success on the examination, but she took the test anyway, passed, and in 1924 was admitted to Georgia Augusta University, commonly known as Goettingen.
		Maria became a student of Max Born who introduced her to quantum mechanics and physics.
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		Maria's father was able to provide some food for his family by accepting food instead of money in return for his work as a physician.
		Maria's family was pretty well off, as her mother had inherited money after her father passed away, and Maria's father was a professor.
		Maria made a deliberate effort to spend time with her children, but being a woman in science meant that she had to work twice as hard as anyone else in her field to receive any recognition at all.
	www.msu.edu /~karchinl/Personal_Interests_Page.html (804 words)

	Women and Mathematics August Contest
		Maria Goeppert was born in Kattowitz, Germany in 1906.
		Maria grew up in an academic environment, and her father, Friedrich Goeppert, urged her to reject the traditional roles society had in mind for her.
		Maria Goeppert Mayer was awarded the 1963 Nobel prize in physics (joint with Hans Jensen and Eugene Wigner) for her development of the nuclear shell model.
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	Report: Maria Mayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mayer landed her first paid position, a halftime teaching post at Sarah Lawrence College, in 1941 after moving to New York.
		Teller and Maria realized that few elements, such as tin and lead, were much more abundant than their theory of the creation of elements explained.
		In 1960, the Mayers moved to the University of California, San Diego, where Maria was appointed professor of physics; her first full-time paid position.
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	Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Biography
		Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906, in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the only child of Friedrich Goeppert and his wife Maria, nee Wolff.
		Maria Goeppert finally took the abitur examination in Hannover, in 1924, being examined by teachers she had never seen in her life.
		Goeppert Mayer taught one year at Sarah Lawrence College, but she worked mainly at the S. Laboratory, on the separation of isotopes of uranium, with
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	Mayer, Maria Goeppert
		In 1939 she and her husband both received appointments in chemistry at Columbia University, where Maria Mayer worked on the separation of uranium isotopes for the atomic bomb project.
		After the war Mayer's interests centered increasingly in nuclear physics, and in 1945 she became a volunteer professor of physics in the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago.
		From 1948 to 1949 Mayer published several papers concerning the stability and configuration of protons and neutrons that constitute the atomic nucleus.
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		Goeppert-Mayer, Maria (1906-1972), German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for her study of nuclear structure.
		Montessori, Maria (1870-1952), Italian educator and doctor, born in Chiaravalle, and educated at the University of Rome.
		Maria Theresa (1717-1780), Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740-1780), who strengthened and unified the Austrian monarchy...
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	Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Wikipedia
		Wie wissenschaftlich bedeutend Göttingen damals war, zeigte sich auch daran, dass bei ihrem Rigorosum auch James Franck und Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus anwesend waren.
		Sie heiratete den Franck-Mitarbeiter Joseph Edward Mayer (1904-1983), dem späteren Präsidenten der American Physical Society, und ging mit ihm in die USA.
		Sie lehrte, während der Zeit der Depression wollte niemand die Frau eines Professors bezahlen, unentgeltlich an der Johns Hopkins University (1930 - 1939) und an der Columbia University (1939 - 1946) und publizierte zusammen mit ihrem Mann 1940 das Buch "Statistical Mechanics".
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		Maria Goeppert Mayer was born in 1906 in Germany.
		Mayer came up with an idea about the structure of the nuclei of atoms.
		For much of her career, Mayer worked as a volunteer while her husband was a paid university employee due to anti-nepotism laws.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /people/modern_era/mayer.html (405 words)

	Mayer, Maria Goeppert -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Maria Goeppert was born in Kattowitz, Germany, on June 28, 1906.
		A quantum theory of nuclei, the nuclear shell model, was first developed by the German physicists Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen around 1950 and unified and extended by the Danish...
		Maria Tallchief was born on Jan. 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Okla. The daughter of an Osage Indian, she spent part of her childhood on a reservation.
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	Active Skim View of: Maria Goeppert Mayer
		This accomplishment had its beginnings in her early exposure to an intense atmosphere of science, both at home and in the surrounding university community, a community providing her with the opportunity to follow her inclinations and to develop her remarkable talents under the guidance of the great teachers and scholars of mathematics and physics.
		Her ability to immediately recognize spin-orbit coupling as the source of the correct numerology was a direct consequence of her mathematical understanding of quantum mechanics and especially of her great facility with the numerics of the representations of the rotation group.
		Maria Mayer and Jensen were not acquainted with one another at the time, and they did not meet until her visit to Germany in 1950.
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	Register of Maria Goeppert Mayer Papers - MSS 0020
		Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906 in Kattowitz, Germany, to Friedrich and Maria (nee Wolff) Goeppert.
		Maria Goeppert Mayer came to the University of California, San Diego, in 1960 as a professor of physics.
		Maria Mayer's papers contain a relative abundance of correspondence, much in German, with family members, professional colleagues, and admirers.
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	Maria Goeppert Mayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maria Goeppert Mayer silently fought the injustices of the male-dominated field of science while at the same time tackled the mysteries of physics.
		By 1930, the same year she was married to Joseph Mayer, Mayer completed her thesis.
		In it, she calculated the probability that an electron orbiting an atom's nucleus would emit not one, but two, photons or quantum units of light as it jumps to an orbit closer to the nucleus, a concept still cited today.
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	Interesting Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to Ann Roe and Bernice Eiduson, both well known psychologists, children who have a history of minor physical ailments that tend to isolate a child for long periods at a time, is a recurring theme in the early lives of many scientists.
		It was Maria who made the connection between the magic numbers, spin-orbit coupling and the nuclear shell of an atom.
		Despite all this, Maria still was able to shake the Kings hand and dance the waltz after the ceremony.
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	MARIA GOEPPERT MAYER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The discovery and application of the nuclear shell model, for which Maria Goeppert Mayer received the Nobel Prize in 1963, together with Jensen, was one of the most important developments in nuclear physics.
		It is not so well known that Maria Goeppert Mayer was an accomplished physicist even from the beginning of her career.
		She and Joseph Mayer, her husband, coauthored a book on Statistical Mechanics, which was the standard textbook in the subject when I was a student at the University of Chicago.
	home.physics.ucla.edu /~moszkows/mayer.htm (207 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Nuclear Physicist Maria Mayer
		Mayer sidestepped those obstacles to become one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century and only the second woman, after Marie Curie, to win a Nobel Prize in physics.
		Even though Mayer had a Ph.D. when few women could say the same, she was still subjected to a societal bias against women in the sciences.
		Mayer was an only child, born to a father who was a sixth-generation university professor.
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	MSN Encarta - Maria Goeppert-Mayer
		Goeppert-Mayer was born in Poland and educated at the University of Göttingen.
		In 1931 she married the American physicist Joseph E. Mayer and went with him to the United States, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1933.
		She taught at several institutions before joining (1960) the faculty of the University oF California at San Diego.
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	Maria Goeppert-Mayer
		Maria Göppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 2, 1972) was born Maria Göppert in Katowice and became one of the few women to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.
		She grew up in Göttingen and studied there.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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	Maria Goeppert Mayer, the Nuclear Shell Structure, and Magic Numbers
		In 1960, Goeppert-Mayer and her husband moved to the University of California at San Diego, where she served as a professor of physics and continued research in nuclear physics until her death in 1972.
		Maria Goeppert-Mayer Symposiums, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at The University of California at San Diego (UCSD)
		Maria Goeppert Mayer, Work during World War II
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		German educated physicist, co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics, professor of physics at UCSD, and spouse of UCSD chemist Joseph Mayer until her death in 1972.
		Maria Mayer is best known for collaborative research with Johannes Jensen.
		Both physicists were awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize for their investigations of nuclear shell structure and the significance of nuclei having a special number of protons.
	physics.ucsd.edu /mayer/mmayer.txt (275 words)

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