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...California in San Diego, where the Burbidges have taught for the past decade, Mrs. Burbidge tries to give all the time and counsel she can to women students. "In view of their situation," she says, "they need every encouragement." Together with the late Nobel laureate in physics Maria Goeppert Mayer-who died last month-she has also been pressuring the university to hire more women. A few months ago, she unexpectedly rejected the distinguished Annie J. Cannon Prize, given by the American Astronomical Society for notable work by women in astronomy. "Because of the small number of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Stargazer | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Died. Maria Goeppert Mayer, 65, only woman besides Madame Curie to win the Nobel Prize in physics; of a heart attack; in San Diego. A German-born scientist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, Mayer visualized the atomic nucleus as a series of onion-like layers of neutrons and protons. That insight was developed into the Jensen-Mayer "shell theory" of the nucleus, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with fellow physicists Hans Jensen of Heidelberg and Eugene Wigner of Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 6, 1972 | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...Maria Goeppert Mayer, SC.D., 1963 Nobel prizewinner for physics. Feminine delicacy may have prompted her interest in the "lighter nuclei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: KUDOS | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

Valuable Band. The award was also a reminder of the brilliant and valuable band of scientific immigrants† who fled Central Europe to escape Hitlerism. Wigner came to the U.S. from Germany in 1930. That same year, Mrs. Maria Goeppert Mayer, who shared the other half of the physics prize with Professor J. Hans D. Jensen of Heidelberg, came to the U.S. from Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Nobelmen & Nobelwoman | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...Maria Goeppert Mayer, nuclear physicist, University of California at La Jolla Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 9, 1961 | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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