Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Angélique Sanchez
- Timeline
- 1906-1972
- Field
- Theoritical physics, nuclear physics
- Institutions
- Sarah Lawrence College, Unites-States
Columbia University, Unites-States
Los Alamos Laboratory, Unites-States
Argonne National Laboratory, Unites-States
University of California, San Diego, Unites-States
University of Chicago, Unites-States - Known for
- The discovery of the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus
- Distinctions
- Nobel Prize in Physics “for their (together with J. Hans D. Jensen) discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”, 1963
- Establishement of the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists in her honor, 1986
