. . . "1906-06-28Z"^^ . "Maria Goeppert Mayer"@en . "1906Z"^^ . . . "1972-02-20Z"^^ . "Goeppert Mayer, Maria"@en . . "American physicist" . . . . "1972Z"^^ . . "Maria Goeppert Mayer (June 28, 1906 \u2013 February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second female Nobel laureate in physics, after Marie Curie.A graduate of the University of G\u00F6ttingen, Goeppert Mayer wrote her doctorate on the theory of possible two-photon absorption by atoms."@en .