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Maria Goeppert Mayer

1906 - 1972

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Maria Goeppert Mayer (German: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɐt ˈmaɪɐ] ; née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen for their model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first being Marie Curie in 1903. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Goeppert Mayer is the 28th most popular physicist (up from 61st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Poland (up from 36th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Physicist.

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.

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Among physicists, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 28 out of 851. Before her are Werner Heisenberg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, and Robert Hooke. After her are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, Heinrich Hertz, Lawrence Bragg, and Christiaan Huygens.

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Among people born in 1906, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 4. Before her are Leonid Brezhnev, Puyi, and Adolf Eichmann. After her are Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1972, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 3. Before her are Edward VIII, and Harry S. Truman. After her are Ip Man, Frederick IX of Denmark, Ezra Pound, Yasunari Kawabata, M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, and Paul-Henri Spaak.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 10 out of 1,694. Before her are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), and Lech Wałęsa (1943). After her are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 3. Before her are Marie Curie (1867), and Albert A. Michelson (1852). After her are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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