Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Maria Goeppert-MayerTimeline of her life.

June 28th, 1906Maria is born in Katowice, Poland

1924Maria passed the Universitys Abitur entrance exam.

1930Achieved the PhD from the University of Gottingen.

1930Maria Goeppert married Dr. Joseph Edward Mayer

1931 Goeppert-Mayer worked out the theory of possible two-photon absorption by atoms193139Worked in volunteer position in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

1940-46Columbia University

1946Goeppert was offered a job as Senior Physicist in the Theoretical Physics Division at the Argonne National Laboratory

1955Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure, Jensen and Goepperts book got published.

1960Maria Goeppert Mayer accepted a full professorship at the University of California.

1963She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics1972Maria Goeppert Mayer suffered a stroke and died in San Diego, California.