Papers, 1925-1973.

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Papers, 1925-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306612

The materials include general and famiy correspondence, as well as detailed correspondence with her co-Nobel prize winner, Hans Jensen (for their independent work on the nuclear shell model theory) and her Manhattan Project colleague, Edward Teller. The Teller correspondence was written during his involvement on the Manhattan Project. Also included are reprints and writings of hers, as well as research notebooks, class lectures, and teaching materials from both the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

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Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906 in Kattowitz, Germany, to Friedrich and Maria (nee Wolff) Goeppert. In 1910 she moved with her parents to Gottingen where her father taught pediatrics at the University. She enrolled at the University at Gottingen in the spring of 1924 with the expectation of pursuing a career in mathematics, but soon became attracted to physics and the developing field of quantum mechanics. In 1930 Mayer took her doctorate in theoretical physics under t...