Biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer:

1906 - Born on the 28th of June in Kattowitz, Germany. 1924 - Passed the university's arbiter entrance examinations and enrolled there in the fall.

1930 - Married Dr Joseph Edward Mayer, the assistant of James Franck. 1931 - 1939 - Worked at unofficial or volunteer positions at the university at which her husband was professor, first at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

1946 - Maria Goeppert Mayer was offered a part-time job there as Senior Physicist in the Theoretical Physics Division. 1950 - Maria Goeppert Mayer computed equations on opacity for Edward Teller that would be used for Teller's investigations into the possibility of a hydrogen bomb.

1960 - Maria Goeppert Mayer was appointed to a position as a Full Professor at the University of California, San Diego (then known as the University of California, La Jolla).