![]() The general nature of these letters is purely personal. They have now been organized into 17įolders by date. The donor there was no apparent organization. In a very few cases, a month has been added when a family event,įor example a birth or death, has been mentioned. Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project.įrom this historical background, it is possible to assign tentative year dates to The United States entry into the Korean War in 1950 and the investigation of J. Truman in 1948 the Klaus Fuchs exposure in 1950 the Soviet take-over of Hungary The political situation in the post war United States the re-election of President The outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939 the bombing of Pearl Harbor and theĮntry of the United States into the War the dropping of atom bombs on Japan in 1945 The letters were written against a background of national and international events: Rooms or during transit on planes or trains. Letters are in English, and for the most part appear to have been written from hotel One letter was written in German, while the remaining A few are typed on letterheadįrom the University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and a Santa Fe Letters are on plain paper, handwritten, and signed "Edward". Edward Teller, physicist, and "Father of the H-Bomb." Most of the Most of his letters are ofĪ personal nature, discussing the impending war with Germany, life in besieged England,Īnd the affairs of mutual friends and colleagues.ī) Edward Teller Correspondence: The Teller letters were probably written in the periodġ939-1971 by Dr. Max Born, who emigrated to England before World War II. The German correspondence may include notes in English on the contents of the letter.Īlso contained in the correspondence are letters from Mayer's dissertation advisor, The subseries, folders are arranged in chronological order.Īrranged in four subseries: A) General Correspondence, B) Edward Teller Correspondence,Ĭ) Undated Correspondence and D) Family Correspondence.Ī) General Correspondence: Incoming and outgoing correspondence in English and German,Īrranged chronologically, primarily with scientific colleagues and organizations. Much in German, with family members, professional colleagues, and admirers. Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Maria Mayer's papers contain a relative abundance of correspondence, After a protracted illness, she died on February 20, 1972. National Academy of Sciences, the Akademie der Wissenschafter in Heidelberg, and the During this period Mayer publicallyĮncouraged young women to pursue careers in the sciences. Physics under grants administered by Keith Brueckner. At San Diego she taught while conducting research in nuclear Maria Goeppert Mayer came to the University of California, San Diego, in 1960 asĪ professor of physics. In 1963, Maria Mayer was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Hans Jensen With Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen which led to the publication of the book Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Theory (1955). In 1950 she met and began a collaboration Shells of electrons" at the atomic level. Numbers to be the shell numbers of a shell model, a "nuclear counterpart to the closed Numbers"- those nuclei that have a special number of protons. ![]() In 1948, Mayer began work on nuclear shell structure and the meaning of the "magic During this period Mayer beganĪ long correspondence with Edward Teller. Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago. After the war she took a professorship of physics at the She co-authored a text entitled Statistical Mechanics (1940) with her husband. (Strategic Alloy Metals) Laboratory which researched There Maria worked under theĭirection of Harold Urey at the S.A.M. In 1939 they went to Columbia University. Together they moved to Baltimore, Maryland where Joseph taught at the Johns Hopkins While completing her studies at Gottingen she met and married Joseph Edward Mayer,Īn American post-doctoral fellow working in physical chemistry under James Franck. Prize winners Max Born, James Franck, and Adolf Windaus. In 1930 Mayer took her doctorate in theoretical physics under the direction of Nobel Gottingen in the spring of 1924 with the expectation of pursuing a career in mathematics,īut soon became attracted to physics and the developing field of quantum mechanics. Her father taught pediatrics at the University. In 1910 she moved with her parents to Gottingen where Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on Jin Kattowitz, Germany, to FriedrichĪnd Maria (nee Wolff) Goeppert.
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