Ferry, Joseph.

Maria Goeppert Mayer / Joseph P. Ferry. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003. - 110 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - Women in science . - Women in science (Chelsea House Publishers) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104) and index.

A biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and who, in 1963, was cowinner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on the nuclear shell model theory.

0791072479 (lib. bdg.) : $22.95

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Mayer, Maria Coeppert, 1906-1972.


Physicists--Biography.
Scientists--Biography.
Nobel Prizes--Biography.
Women--Biography.

QC16.M474 / F47 2003

530/.092 B