Maria Goeppert Mayer's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

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Maria Goeppert Mayer (German: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɐt ˈmaɪɐ] ; née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. The birth-card coordinate for June 28 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1963 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1963 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Maria Goeppert Mayer's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Maria Goeppert Mayer. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Maria Goeppert Mayer in the public record

Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win the 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 honor. A graduate of the University of Göttingen, Goeppert Mayer wrote her doctoral thesis on the theory of possible two-photon absorption by atoms. At the time, the chances of experimentally verifying her thesis seemed remote, but the development of the laser in the 1960s later permitted this. Today, the unit for the two-photon absorption cross section is called the Goeppert Mayer (GM) unit. Maria Goeppert married American chemist Joseph Edward Mayer and moved to the United States, where he was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.

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Maria Goeppert Mayer (German: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɐt ˈmaɪɐ] ; née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J.

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Also on the record

1. Strict rules against nepotism prevented Johns Hopkins University from taking her on as a faculty member, but she was given a job as an assistant and published a landmark paper on double beta decay in 1935.
2. In 1937, she moved to Columbia University, where she took an unpaid position.
3. During World War II, she worked for the Manhattan Project at Columbia on isotope separation, and with Edward Teller at the Los Alamos Laboratory on the development of thermonuclear weapons.
4. After the war, Goeppert Mayer became a voluntary Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago (where her husband and Teller worked) and a senior physicist at the university-run Argonne National Laboratory.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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What is Maria Goeppert Mayer's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. June 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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