 Stereo radar images by Magellan | |
| Location | Venus |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 59°42′N26°48′E / 59.7°N 26.8°E |
| Diameter | 33.5 km (20.8 mi) |
| Eponym | Maria Goeppert-Mayer [1] |
Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It was named in 1991 after Polish physicist and Nobel laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer. [2]
It is 35 kilometers (22 mi) in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) of relief. [3]
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-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 Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.
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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.
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