Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award

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.

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 * 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