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, Nobel laureate in 1963 with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. 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 Nobel Prize in Physics after Marie Curie.
Recipients Source:Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society
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 1994: Laura H. Greene 1995: Jacqueline Hewitt 1996: Marjorie Ann Olmstead 1997: Margaret Murnane 1998: Elizabeth Beise 1999: Andrea Ghez 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 2008: Vassiliki Kalogera 2009: Saskia Mioduszewski 2010: Alessandra Lanzara 2011: Réka Albert 2012: Nadya Mason 2013: Feryal Ozel 2014: Ana Maria Rey 2015: Gretchen Campbell 2016: Henriette Elvang 2017: Maiken Mikkelsen 2018: M. Lisa Manning 2019: Alyson Brooks 2020: Elisabeth Krause 2021: Phiala E. Shanahan 2022: Blakesley Burkhart 2023: Prineha Narang 2024: Alison Patteson 2025: Wennie Wang 2026: Kayla Nguyen
See also
List of physics awards
References