2.  Maria is born in Katowice, Poland

3.  Maria passed the University’s Abitur entrance exam.

4. Achieved the PhD from the University of Gottingen.

5.  Maria Goeppert married Dr. Joseph Edward Mayer

6.  Goeppert-Mayer worked out the theory of possible two-photon absorption by atoms

7.  Worked in volunteer position in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

8.  Columbia University

9.  Goeppert was offered a job as Senior Physicist in the Theoretical Physics Division at the Argonne National Laboratory

10.  Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure, Jensen and Goeppert’s book got published.

11.  Maria Goeppert Mayer accepted a full professorship at the University of California.

12.  She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

13.  Maria Goeppert Mayer suffered a stroke and died in San Diego, California.