Abstract: Mayer, Maria Goeppert, German-American physicist: b. Kattowitz, Germany (now Katowice, Poland), June 28, 1906. One of the outstanding theoretical physicists of her time, she made significant contributions to solid-state theory and statistical mechanics and, most particularly, to the borderline between these disciplines — theory of phase transitions. She won her world fame and a share of the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics, however, by her recognition of a structure in the properties of the nuclei and her explanation of that structure. She explain...
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