Joseph Edward Mayer
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1904 –
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Who is Joseph Edward Mayer?
Joseph Edward Mayer was a chemist who has formulated the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory.
He was professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego from 1960 to 1973. He was married to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer from 1930 until her death in 1972. He went to work with James Franck in Göttingen, Germany in 1929, where he met Maria, a student of Max Born. Joseph Mayer was president of the American Physical Society from 1973 to 1975.
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1904
New York City - Spouses
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
(1930/01 - )
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Education
- California Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- May 7, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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