| Maria Goeppert-Mayer  AKA Maria Goeppert
Born: 28-Jun-1906
Birthplace: Kattowitz, Germany
Died: 20-Feb-1972
Location of death: San Diego, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Shell nuclear model Father: Friedrich Goeppert (Professor of Pediatrics)
Mother: Maria Wolff
Husband: Joseph E. Mayer (chemical physicist, m. 1930)
Daughter: Maria Ann Wentzel
Son: Peter Conrad
University: PhD, University of Göttingen (1930)
Scholar: Johns Hopkins University
Professor: Columbia University
Professor: Sarah Lawrence College (1942-45, concurrently with Columbia)
Professor: Physics, University of Chicago (volunteer 1945-59, full professor 1959-)
Professor: University of California at San Diego (1960-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1963 (with Eugene Wigner, J. Hans D. Jensen)
National Academy of Sciences
Naturalized US Citizen 1933
Author of books:
Statistical Mechanics (1940, physics, with Joseph E. Mayer)
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