German-American atomic and nuclear physicist (1906-1972). Rare signed photograph. no place, no date. 125 : 175 mm. Mounted to larger album page.
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Nice head and shoulders photograph of the physicist. - Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-American atomic and nuclear 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.
deutsch-US-amerikanische Physikerin (1906-1972). Eigenh. Unterschrift auf Albumblatt. ohne Ort und Jahr. Quer-32mo. 1 p.
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Maria Gertrude Goeppert-Mayer führte das Schalenmodell des Atomkerns ein und erhielt dafür 1963 (als zweite Frau) den Nobelpreis für Physik, gemeinsam mit Hans Jensen, der unabhängig und gleichzeitig ebenfalls das Schalenmodell des Atomkerns fand. German-born American theoretical physicist (1906–1972) who received the Nobel Prize for 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.