Maria Mayer

• She was born on June 28, 1906
• She died February 20, 1972
• Maria was born in Kattowitz, German Empire (today Katowice, Poland) but then relocated to San Diego, Californa

Untitled Slide

• She was a theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.

She was the second female Nobel laureate in physics, after Marie Curie.

Before she became famous...

• She was turned down by John Hopkins University due to the strict rules against nepotism.
• Her first big job was having an unpaid position at Columbia University.

Untitled Slide

• During World War Two she worked for the Manhattan Project at Columbia on isotope seperation.
• Then she worked with Edward Teller at the Los Alamos Labatory on the development of the Teller's "Super" Bomb.

Nicole Price

• Ms. Conlin
• 3/12/15
• Thank you for not giving up after John Hopkins University turned you down. You stayed motivated and ended up helping the United States win the World War Two.

Untitled Slide

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert- Mayer
• www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-bio.html