https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa A Famous Physicist en-us 2018-04-13 14:21:34 UTC 2018-04-13 15:20:22 UTC hello@padlet.com tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251576318 Date of Birth: June 28, 1906 in Kattowitz, German Empire. 
Date of Death: February 20, 1972 in California, United States]]> 2018-04-13 14:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251576318 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251578831  Was a graduate of the University of Göttingen

Mayer originally studied mathematics but then become much more interested in Physics and went for her Ph. D in that field instead. 

Her resulting doctoral thesis worked out the possibility of two-photon absorption by atoms.]]> 2018-04-13 14:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251578831 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251582681 The nuclear shell model is a model of the atomic nucleus which uses the Pauli exclusion principle to describe the structure of the nucleus in terms of energy levels. This model is used in both nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry. ]]> 2018-04-13 14:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251582681 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251585433 While in Chicago and Argonne in the 1940's, Mayer developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, which she published in 1950. ]]> 2018-04-13 14:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251585433 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251586929 Maria's husband took the position as a professor in the Chemistry Department which allowed Maria to volunteer as an associate professor in the department of physics. This allowed her to explore the world of physics and continue on her previous works. ]]> 2018-04-13 14:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251586929 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251590881 In 1963, Goeppert-Mayer, Jensen, and Wigner shared the Nobel Prize for Physics "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." Maria was the second female Nobel laureate in physics following Marie Curie.]]> 2018-04-13 15:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251590881 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251593612            After her death, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award was created by the American Physical Society to honor young female physicists at the beginning of their careers. This is open to all female physicists who hold Ph.D.s and the winner receives money and the opportunity to give guest lectures about her research at four different major institutions.
          California, San Diego also hosts an annual Maria Goeppert Mayer symposium, which brings together female researchers to discuss current science.]]> 2018-04-13 15:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251593612 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251597400  Mayer joined the Manhattan Project when she accepted a part-time research oppurtunity from Urey with Columbia University's Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM), Laboratories. The objective of the project was to find a means of separating the fissile uranium-235 isotope in natural uranium. She researched the chemical and thermodynamic properties of uranium hexafluoride and investigated the possibility of separating isotopes by photochemical reactions. Her findings would end up being impractical at the time, but later on with the development of lasers, the separation of atoms became possible. ]]> 2018-04-13 15:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251597400 tyle0590 https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251600179 2018-04-13 15:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tyle0590/qoo2qamb3gpa/wish/251600179