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Maria Goeppert Mayer

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Maria Goeppert Mayer
Full Name
of the recipient		Maria Goeppert Mayer
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1963
Share in Award25.0%
Award Shared withEugene Paul Wigner (50.0%)
J. Hans D. Jensen (25.0%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Place of BirthKattowitz (now Katowice), Germany (now known as Poland POL)
Date of Birth28 June 1906
Age
at the time of Award		56 years
Place of DeathSan Diego, CA, United States USA
Date of Death20 February 1972
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