Correspondence and manuscripts documenting his dispute with Karen Johnson's interpretation of Maria Göppert Mayer's war work on isotope separation and gaseous separation.

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Correspondence and manuscripts documenting his dispute with Karen Johnson's interpretation of Maria Göppert Mayer's war work on isotope separation and gaseous separation.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79756890

Includes galley proofs of Johnson's article and manuscript by Bigeleisen on Mayer written to correct the record.

36 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Bigeleisen, J. (Jacob), 1919-2010

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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...