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Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)

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Maria Goeppert Mayer

German-American theoretical physicist (1906–1972)

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-American theoretical 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…
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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June 28

Day of the year

June 28 is the 179th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 186 days remain until the end of the year.
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