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eppur_se_muova

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14. Maria Goeppert-Meyer came pretty close ...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Oct 4, 2023, 08:37 AM

Oct 2023

She was a voluntary associate professor of physics at the University of Chicago, where her husband worked, at the time she developed the nuclear shell model. By the time she received the Nobel in 1963, she had been hired as a full professor at UCSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert_Mayer

She did a fair amount of other landmark work in physics as well, including predicting the transuranics would form a lanthanide-like series. I'm amazed at how much good physics is found in her bio.

(I know you're familiar with her history, but sharing with everyone.)

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When was the last time a person with the title of "adjunct professor" won the Nobel Prize? [View all] NNadir Oct 2023 OP

Thanks for pointing this out. nt delisen Oct 2023 #1

Lucky for the world that Dr Drew saw the value and partnered with her. Otherwise JudyM Oct 2023 #2

Well, at least she received the prize, unlike Lise Meitner, who discovered fission for which... NNadir Oct 2023 #3

I don't know his title other than department head when I met him usonian Oct 2023 #4

Thanks. I didn't know about that case. NNadir Oct 2023 #16

I hope she switches Universities. IbogaProject Oct 2023 #5

Indeed! 👍 Duppers Oct 2023 #6

She's apparently moved to a University in Hungary. NNadir Oct 2023 #8

HUNGARY???? Where the racist and anti-Semitic fascist Orban is president? Grins Oct 2023 #9

Because she was born and raised there? NNadir Oct 2023 #10

Yes! Congratulations... Duppers Oct 2023 #7

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn usonian Oct 2023 #11

Good on her for pointing it out. NNadir Oct 2023 #12

There's now a separate thread on this in GD: eppur_se_muova Oct 2023 #17

The politics of academia can be a real shit show. hunter Oct 2023 #13

Maria Goeppert-Meyer came pretty close ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2023 #14

I certainly know who she was and referenced her work in a lecture I gave some months back, but... NNadir Oct 2023 #15