Maria Goeppert Mayer

What year did Maria Goeppert Mayer win the nobel prize?

• 1999

• 1963

• 1945

• 1933

Answer explanation

She was the second woman to win a nobel prize!

How many years after Marie Curie did she win the nobel prize?

• 30

• 70

• 60

• 50

Where was Maria born?

• Italy

• Germany

• Spain

• USA

What did her husband study?

• Physics

• Chemistry

• English

• Biology

Why didn' t she get a paied job in Universities for years?

• Beacuse scientists thought she wasn't good enough

• Beacuse she didn't finish her studies

• Beacuse her husband didn't want her to

• Because women were not fully recognised in the scientific community

What did she discover about the nucleus of the atom?

• That protons and neutrons spin coupled in a liquid nucleus

• That protons and neutrons spin coupled in specific energy levels.

• That the nucleus is made of liquid unknown particles

• That electrons spin around the nucleus

Where is the Nobel prize normally awarded?

• Washington, USA

• London, UK

• Berlin, Germany

• Stockholm, Sweden

Which subject really helped her to support her nucleus model theory?

• Poetry

• Mathematics

• Physics

• Chemistry

Why did physicist found it so hard to accept Maria's nucleus model?

• because the repulsive forces between neutrons are so big that such an ordered structure seemed impossible.

• because the repulsive forces between protons are so big that such an ordered structure seemed impossible.

• because the repulsive forces between electrons are so big that such an ordered structure seemed impossible.

• because the repulsive forces between particles are so big that such an ordered structure seemed impossible.

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