What is Maria Goeppert Mayer?
[[File:Mayer.jpg|thumb|200px]] '''Maria Goeppert Mayer''' (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born [[America]]n [[theoretical physicist]], and [[Nobel Laureate in Physics]]. The nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus was her idea. She was the second woman to win a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. [[Marie Curie]] was the first. Mayer died on February 20, 1972 at a hospital in [[California]], [[United States]] at the age of 65. {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} [[Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners]] [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1972 deaths]] [[Category:American theoretical physicists]] {{bio-stub}}