If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

1. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer A trailblazing physicist and one of UC San Diego’s founding faculty members, Maria Goeppert Mayer left a lasting impact on science and academia.

Maria Goeppert Mayer. Image via Openverse. Maria Goeppert Mayer, a German-American physicist, was instrumental in developing the nuclear shell model, a groundbreaking theory that describes the ...

Distinguished Graduate Alumna of the University of Notre Dame (2016). Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society (2011). Fellow of the American Physical Society (2009). NSF CAREER ...

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