Maria Goeppert Mayer Timeline-Science-Janelle Kelly

  • Birthday

    Birthday
    Katowice,Germany
  • Went to Unviversity Of Gottingen

    Started private school
  • Married Joe Mayer and moved to USA

    Married Joe Mayer and moved to USA
    Married on January 19 1930 and then moved to america to become an american citizen
  • Translator Job

    Got a job as a translator of German Correspondence
  • Teacher at Johns Hopkins University

    Begins teaching agian
  • Teacher at Sarah Lawrence

    Starts teaching at a college
  • Studies in Manhattattan

    She begins working on the separation of uranium istopes which brings along atomic bombs
  • Books

    Coauthored a book with her husband "Statistical Mechanics"
  • Professor

    Became associate professor at University of Chicago
  • University of Chicago and Argonne National Labortory

    Continues nuclear studies at the University of Chicago and Agronne National Labrotory
  • Nuclear Shell Theory

    Came up and explained the Nuclear Shell Theory
  • Publishing her theory

    Her idea of the Nuclear Shell Theory was published in "Elementary Theory Of Nuclear Shell Structure"
  • University of California

    Moved to San Diego,California to study at University Of California
  • Died from heart disease

    Died from heart disease
    Died on February 20 1972