#Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Author: Kyle Plantz / Source: Science News A physicist, a gamer and two editors walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the setup for some joke. After work one night, a few Science News staffers tried out a new board game, Subatomic. This deck-building game combines chemistry and particle physics for an

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News for Students Two major discoveries in laser science have proven to be more than just tricks of light. They allow scientists to tackle a range of previously impossible tasks. And in appreciation for what these advances offer, three of their discoverers

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News Fantastic feats performed with lasers have earned three scientists the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the award, which totals 9 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million), went to physicist Arthur Ashkin for his development of optical tweezers.

Author: Joshua Roebke / Source: WIRED In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55