Maria Gertrude Goeppert-Mayer (* 28.Juni 1906 in Kattowitz, Oberschlesien; † 20. Februar 1972 in San Diego, Kalifornien) war eine deutsch-US-amerikanische Physikerin.Sie führte das Schalenmodell des Atomkerns ein und erhielt dafür 1963 (als zweite Frau überhaupt) den Nobelpreis für Physik, gemeinsam mit Hans Jensen, der unabhängig und etwa gleichzeitig …

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Katowice, 28 de junio de 1906-San Diego, California, 20 de febrero de 1972) fue una física teórica estadounidense de origen polaco, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Física en 1963 por proponer el modelo de capas nuclear.Fue la segunda mujer galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Física después de Marie Curie.. Carrera. Maria Goeppert nació en …

Annie Jump Cannon (/ ˈ k æ n ə n /; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based …

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee, Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarja skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, …

Background. The phenomenon was originally predicted by Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1931 in her doctoral dissertation. Thirty years later, the invention of the laser permitted the first experimental verification of TPA when two-photon-excited fluorescence was detected in a europium-doped crystal. Soon afterwards, the effect was observed in cesium vapor and then in CdS, a …

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; French: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect …

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.

The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1), and the first designed and built for continuous operation.It was built during World War II as part of the …