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Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award

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The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in the early years of their careers.[1]

The prize has been awarded since 1986 and is named after Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel laureate in 1963 with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen were awarded their prize "for their discovery of the nuclear shell structure".

Goeppert-Mayer was the second woman to receive a Nobel prize in physics after Marie Curie.

Recipients

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References

  1. ^ "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award". American Physical Society. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. ^ Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society
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