Question

For what did Maria Goeppert Mayer win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) Prediction of the existence of mesons
b) Development of shell nuclear model
c) Discovery of Argon
d) Creation of quantum mechanics

Answer 1

Maria Goeppert Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, after Marie Curie.

Answer 2

For what did Maria Goeppert Mayer win Nobel Prize for Physics?

a) Prediction of the existence of mesons

b) Development of shell nuclear model ✓✓

c) Discovery of Argon

d) Creation of quantum mechanics