The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in the early years of their careers. The prize has been awarded since 1986 and is named after

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Maria Goeppert Mayer (; June 28, 1906 – 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 woman to win a Nobel Pri ...

, Nobel laureate in 1963 with

J. Hans D. Jensen Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (; 25 June 1907 – 11 February 1973) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of uranium is ...

and

Eugene Paul Wigner Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner ( hu, Wigner Jenő Pál, ; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his con ...

. Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen were awarded their prize "for their discovery of the nuclear shell structure". Goeppert-Mayer was the second woman to receive a

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after

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

Recipients

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/ref> * 1986: Judith S. Young * 1987: Louise Dolan * 1988: Bonny L. Schumaker * 1989: Cherry A. Murray * 1990: Ellen Williams * 1991: Alice E. White * 1992: Barbara Hope Cooper * 1993:

Ewine van Dishoeck Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a ...

* 1994: Laura H. Greene * 1995:

Jacqueline Hewitt Jacqueline Nina Hewitt (born September 4, 1958) is an American astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover an Einstein ring. She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Early life and education Hewitt was born in Washington, ...

* 1996: Marjorie Ann Olmstead * 1997: Margaret Murnane * 1998: Elizabeth Beise * 1999:

Andrea Ghez Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that re ...

* 2000: Sharon Glotzer * 2001: Janet Conrad * 2002: Deborah S. Jin * 2003: Chung-Pei Michele Ma * 2004: Suzanne Staggs * 2005: Yuri Suzuki * 2006: Hui Cao * 2007:

Amy Barger Amy J. Barger (born January 18, 1971) is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wa ...

* 2008: Vassiliki Kalogera * 2009: Saskia Mioduszewski * 2010: Alessandra Lanzara * 2011: Réka Albert * 2012:

Nadya Mason Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. Mason is the Director of the Illin ...

* 2013:

Feryal Ozel Feryal is a female given name. Notable people with the name include: * Feryal Behzad, Iranian film director * Feryal Clark Feryal Demirci Clark (; ' Demirci; born 6 January 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member o ...

* 2014:

Ana Maria Rey Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Rey was the first Hispan ...

* 2015: Gretchen Campbell * 2016: Henriette Elvang * 2017: Maiken Mikkelsen * 2018: M. Lisa Manning * 2019:

Alyson Brooks Alyson Brooks is an American theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Rutgers University. She uses large-scale simulations to determine how galaxies form. Early life and education Brooks grew up in Minnesota. She was interested in astronomy ...

* 2020: Elisabeth Krause * 2021: Phiala E. Shanahan * 2022: Blakesley Burkhart

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goeppert-Mayer Award Science awards honoring women Awards established in 1986 Awards of the American Physical Society

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