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Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2015.9R |
Title |
Maria Mayer (1906-1972) Nobel Laureate in Physics |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Born in Kattowitz, German Empire, now in Poland, Maria Mayer came to the United States, with her husband Joseph, a chemical physicist, in 1930. She had completed her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Gottingen, Germany that same year. In 1939 the Mayers moved to Leonia while both taught at Columbia University. During World War II she worked toward the atomic bomb, which she later regretted her involvement with. Shortly after the War ended Maria and Joseph were offered professorships at the University of Chicago. It was for her work there in the development of a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells that she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963., shared with Hans Jensen and Eugene Wigner. Mayer is the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie. |
People |
Mayer,Maria |
Subjects |
People Scientists Nobel Prize Laureates |
Collection |
Notable Leonians File |
Source |
Archivist |