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OCR: 1906 Maria Goeppert is born in Kattowitz, Germany (now in Poland). 1914 English physicist Harry Moseley 1887 1915 begins to characterize elements by atomic numbet rather than by atomic mass; the atomic number being the number of protons (positively charged particles) the nucleus (center) of an atom while the atomic mass refers to the number of protons and neutrons (particles with no charge) the nucleus 1930 Goeppert receives her doctorate at the University of Gottingen Germany She marries the American chemical physicist Joseph Mayer. She takes the name Goeppert Mayer. 1931 Joseph and Maria Goeppert Mayer emigrate to the United States. 1939 Maria Goeppert Mayer attends Columbia University New York. 1945 Continues her research at the newly completed Institute for Nuclear Studies at the Unive ...