* 1906
Kattowitz/Upper Silesia
+ 1972 San Diego, Kalifornien
1963 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with J. Hans D. Jensen
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical
physicist.
Doctorate 1930 in Göttingen by Max Born, James Franck, Richard
Courant, and Alfred Windaus.
Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of
the atomic nucleus.
She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the
first being Marie Curie.