Goeppert-Mayer

Goeppert-Mayer [gŭp′ûrt-mā′ər]Maria 1906-1972

1. German-born American physicist who, with Hans Jensen, developed a model of the atomic nucleus that explained why certain nuclei were stable and had an unusual number of stable isotopes. For this work, Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics with American physicist Eugene Wigner.