1906 - 1972
Maria Goeppert Mayer (German pronunciation: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɛʁt ˈmaɪ̯ɐ] , née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Goeppert Mayer has received more than 310,289 page views. Her biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Maria Goeppert Mayer is the 63rd most popular physicist (up from 70th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Poland (up from 275th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Physicist.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
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Among physicists, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 63 out of 717. Before her are Otto von Guericke, Gabriel Lippmann, Rudolf Clausius, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Peter Debye. After her are Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Otto Stern, Robert Andrews Millikan, Emil Lenz, and Roger Penrose.
1602 - 1686
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 57
1845 - 1921
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 58
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 59
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 60
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 61
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 62
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 63
1908 - 1968
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 64
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 65
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 66
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 67
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 68
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 69
Among people born in 1906, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 18. Before her are Ilse Koch, Billy Wilder, Roberto Rossellini, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, and Sergei Korolev. After her are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Emmanuel Levinas, Sayyid Qutb, Ernst Ruska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten. Among people deceased in 1972, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 8. Before her are Ip Man, Edward VIII, M. C. Escher, Yasunari Kawabata, Frederick IX of Denmark, and J. Edgar Hoover. After her are Ezra Pound, Igor Sikorsky, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Franz Halder, Paul Hausser, and Kwame Nkrumah.
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 12
1906 - 2002
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 13
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 14
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 15
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 16
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 17
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 18
1906 - 1975
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 19
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 20
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 21
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 22
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 23
1906 - 1947
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 24
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 2
1894 - 1972
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 3
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 4
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 5
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 6
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 7
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 10
1894 - 1972
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 11
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 12
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 13
1909 - 1972
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 14
Among people born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 48 out of 1,454. Before her are Rudolf Clausius (1822), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Ernst Cassirer (1874), and Christian Wolff (1679). After her are Paul Ehrlich (1854), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Klaus Kinski (1926), Otto Stern (1888), and Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768).
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 42
1520 - 1572
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 43
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 44
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 45
1874 - 1945
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 46
1679 - 1754
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 47
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 48
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 49
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 50
1424 - 1444
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 51
1926 - 1991
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 52
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 53
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 54
Among physicists born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 4. Before her are Marie Curie (1867), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), and Rudolf Clausius (1822). After her are Otto Stern (1888), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Leopold Infeld (1898), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), and Vladimir Chelomey (1914).
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.71
Rank: 1
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 2
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 3
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 4
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 5
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 6
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 8
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 9
1898 - 1968
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 10
1803 - 1879
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 11
1914 - 1984
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 12