The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a physicist at Argonne who developed the nuclear shell model theory, a pivotal discovery that won her a Nobel Prize in 1963. This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the ...

Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of only two women to win the Nobel prize for physics thus far, the other being Marie Curie. And yet her name isn’t anywhere near as well known as Marie Curie’s.

On November 5, 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer was awakened early in the morning by a telephone call. “But I do not know anyone in Stockholm,” she wondered, while her husband, Joseph Mayer, was already on ...

Argonne's Maria Goeppert Mayer is one of only three women to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Today, on her 115th birthday, Argonne announces the award of its 2022 Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellowship ...

That was Maria Goeppert Mayer, the first (and only) woman to win the award for theoretical physics. (It would take another 60 + years for Donna Strickland to become the third woman physics laureate in ...

Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of only two women to win the Nobel prize for physics thus far, the other being Marie Curie. And yet her name isn’t anywhere near as well known as Marie Curie’s.

Maria Goeppert Mayer, the last female Nobel physics prize winner, photographed in 1963. Credit: Special Collections & Archives, University of California, San Diego.

Great Women of Science: First Woman Nobel Laureate in Theoretical Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in experimental Physics). It took ...