Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Maria Goeppert Mayer Death Anniversary

 

Maria Goeppert Mayer, who passed away on 20 February 1972, was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and 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.


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