Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1906–1972
How the centre of an atom is built
She was born in Kattowitz, which is now Katowice in Poland.
She worked out a shell model for the centre of an atom.
The Nobel Prize for that work was shared.
Places: Katowice, now in Poland, Göttingen, the United States
What they made
The nuclear shell model. J. Hans D. Jensen and others also belong in this story.