Goeppert Mayer: closed shells in nuclei, Part II

What changed

Used strong spin-orbit splitting to explain closed shells and observed nuclear spins in Part II.

Scientific scope

The record is Mayer's sole-author June 1949 Physical Review letter, Part II. It does not absorb Part I, contemporaneous work by Haxel, Jensen and Suess, later shell-model elaborations or all nuclear-structure phenomena.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Mayer's sole-author June 1949 Physical Review letter, Part II. It does not absorb Part I, contemporaneous work by Haxel, Jensen and Suess, later shell-model elaborations or all nuclear-structure phenomena.

Contributors

• Maria Goeppert Mayer · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• APS page for Closed Shells in Nuclei II
• APS archival full text for Mayer shell paper

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