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Maria Goeppert Mayer

1906 - 1972

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Maria Goeppert Mayer (German: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɐt ˈmaɪɐ] ; née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-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 356,945 page views. Her biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Maria Goeppert Mayer is the 61st most popular physicist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Poland (up from 48th in 2019) and the 3rd 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

Among physicists, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 61 out of 851. Before her are Gabriel Lippmann, Thomas Young, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ludwig Boltzmann, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Robert Andrews Millikan. After her are Otto Stern, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, J. Hans D. Jensen, Eugene Wigner, Johannes Stark, and Rudolf Clausius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 13. Before her are Puyi, Luchino Visconti, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Albert Hofmann. After her are Victor Vasarely, Josephine Baker, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1972, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 8. Before her are Ip Man, Asta Nielsen, Frederick IX of Denmark, Yasunari Kawabata, Edward VIII, and M. C. Escher. After her are J. Edgar Hoover, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Igor Sikorsky, Ezra Pound, Kwame Nkrumah, and Franz Halder.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 36 out of 1,694. Before her are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Andrzej Wajda (1926). After her are Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Kurt Lewin (1890), Christian Wolff (1679), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Irena Sendler (1910), and Otto Stern (1888).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Maria Goeppert Mayer ranks 3. Before her are Marie Curie (1867), and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686). After her are Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Leopold Infeld (1898), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), and Vladimir Chelomey (1914).

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