Rare signed photograph
Photograph signed.
No place, no date.
125 x 175 mm. Mounted to larger album page.
€ 2,500.00
Fine head and shoulders photograph of the physicist.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-American nuclear physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen for their model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first being Marie Curie in 1903. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honour.
