Mayer, Maria Goeppert

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (La Jolla) and J. H. D. Jensen (Heidelberg) discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure. 

James Franck. Taped interview with Maria Goeppert Mayer and Herta Sponer. July 12, 1962. American Philosophical Society Library. Source for quotation about discussions with Haber. 

Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Alfred L. Sklar, "Calculations of the Lower Excited Levels of Benzene," J.Chem.Physics 6 (1938) 645652. 

Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen 1906 J.J. Thomson... 

German-born US physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-72) and German physicist Hans Jensen (1907-73) independently propose the shell structure of the nucleus. 

Joe was an outstanding physical chemist he and his wife Maria [Goeppert Mayer] wrote the outstanding text in statistical mechanics. During the war, he had been working at Aberdeen, Maryland, using the world s first digital computer to calculate artillery trajectories. Perhaps Joe could have access to that computer, and could show me how to solve my determinant on it. So I went to him and asked him to help me. He didn t know about optically active biphenyls, so I made some molecular models and explained the stereochemistry to him, and... 

The shape of the belt of stability can be understood by recognizing that the protons and neutrons can, to a good approximation, be described as if they occupy individual quantum energy levels in much the same way that electrons in multielectron atoms are described as occupying individual elecbon orbitals (Chapter 2). This shell model of the nucleus was developed independently by Maria Goeppert-Mayer and by Hans Jensen and coworkers. The shell model has been successful at explaining a number of general trends related to nuclear stability ... 

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907-1973). German physicist. While a professor at the University of Heidelberg, he developed the shell model of the nucleus in 1949. For this work, he shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Eugene Wigner. 

S. A. Moszkowski, Maria Goeppert Mayer Talk presented at APS meeting at Indianapolis on May 4, 1996, UCLA, USA... 

Joseph E. Mayer, 1904-1983, was a prominent American physicai chemist who was well known fora textbook in statistical mechanics that he coauthored with his wife, Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1906-1972, who was one of the 1963 Nobel Prize winners in physics for her work on the shell theory of nuclei. 

He met his future wife, Maria Goeppert (1906-1972) in Gottingen, Germany, when he was a postdoctoral researcher. They moved to the United States In 1930 and worked at the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at San Diego. Mrs. Goeppert Mayer worked without pay until 1959, when they moved to UCSD. She received the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics for her work on the shell model of the nucleus, which she had carried out while working without pay. 

One might justly say that the theory of multiphoton excita-ti n started with Maria Goeppert-Mayer s thesis on two-photon txcitation in 1931. It took decades until this process was observed experimentally in the radiofrequency " and visible rarges. However, in terms of computational chemistry , tl e starting point for a relevant application of a more general tf eory of multiphoton excitation can be found in the develop-treat of laser chemistry by infrared multiphoton excitation. " ... 

One of the conclusions from table 23.2 is that 4f electrons are distinctly external before barium and distinctly inside the closed shells after cerium, as first discussed theoretically by Maria Goeppert Mayer (1941). The Rydberg defect d increases from 0.31 in Ba to 1.40 in La" and A ,(4f, 4f) is already 13 eV in ha and 19.4 eV in Pr" to be compared with more usual values such as A, (5s, 5s) = 6.3 eV in Y. Although parameters such as A , are derived from... 

As first pointed out by Maria Goeppert Mayer (1941) the distinctive feature of the 4f group is the low average radius (r) combined with a large amount of angular kinetic energy + atomic units corresponding to 540 eV for... 

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, 1906-1972, Polish-American physicist, shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1963 with Eugene P. Wigner (1902-1995) and J. Hans D. Jensen (1907-1973). 

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