Celebrating 75 Years of the Nuclear Shell Model and Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Session

Colloquium

Jul 19, 2024, 11:00 AM

Auditorium (Advanced Photon Source)

Conveners

Colloquium

• Anna McCoy

37. Maria Goeppert Mayer – From Göttingen to the Nobel Prize in Physics

Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)

7/19/24, 11:00 AM

The talk will present an overview of Maria Goeppert-Mayer’s life and her accomplishments in physics. Being trained in quantum theory at the famous Göttingen school of Max Born, she became friends with many of the most influential physicists of the early 20th century. Albeit, as a woman and the wife of Joseph Mayer, she was considered unemployable in the United States, after her emigration from...