Labels:book | daily | person | tie | web site OCR: MARIA GOEPPERT MAYER (1906 72) THE GERMAN- -BORN American physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer 1 renowned for her work 11 nuclear physics. She studied the existing ideas about the structure and bonding properties ofan atom She then went on to develop her own theories, which are still in use today Goeppert Mayer emigrated from Germany the United States 111 1931 and received funds that enabled her to pursue her ideas. 1963 Goeppert Mayer shared Nobel Prize with two other physicists, the German Hans Jensen (1907 -73) and the Amer rican Eugene Wigner 1902 for their independent work on nuclear shell structures UFF ALSO STORY nucleat