Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
The namesake Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963)
The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annually awarded prize with which the American Physical Society recognizes women for outstanding contributions to physical research. This is intended to highlight and recognize outstanding achievements by female physicists at the beginning of their careers.
The prize has been awarded since 1986 and is named after Maria Goeppert-Mayer , who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 together with Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner . Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen received the Nobel Prize for developing the shell model of nuclear physics. After Marie Curie, she was only the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in physics.
Prize winners
- 1986: Judith S. Young
- 1987: Louise Dolan
- 1988: Bonny L. Schumaker
- 1989: Cherry A. Murray
- 1990: Ellen Williams
- 1991: Alice E. White
- 1992: Barbara Cooper
- 1993: Ewine van Dishoeck
- 1994: Laura H. Greene
- 1995: Jacqueline Hewitt
- 1996: Majorie Ann Olmstead
- 1997: Margaret Murnane
- 1998: Elizabeth Beise
- 1999: Andrea Ghez
- 2000: Sharon Glotzer
- 2001: Janet Conrad
- 2002: Deborah S. Jin
- 2003: Chung-Pei Ma
- 2004: Suzanne Staggs
- 2005: Yuri Suzuki
- 2006: Hui Cao
- 2007: Amy Barger
- 2008: Vassiliki Kalogera
- 2009: Saskia Mioduszewski
- 2010: Allesandra Lanzara
- 2011: Réka Albert
- 2012: Nadya Mason
- 2013: Feryal Özel
- 2014: Ana Maria Rey
- 2015: Gretchen Campbell
- 2016: Henriette Elvang
- 2017: Maiken Mikkelsen
- 2018: Lisa Manning
- 2019: Alyson Brooks
- 2020: Elisabeth Krause
Web links
- Maria Goeppert Mayer Award. In: aps.org. American Physical Society , accessed April 24, 2019 .