Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Tuesday, January 01, 1963

Maria Goeppert-Mayer was born in the German empire (modern day Poland) in 1906 and earned her PhD in Physics at the University of Göttingen in 1930. She immigrated to the United States shortly after. Goeppert pioneered the development of the shell-nuclear model. Goeppert won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963.