Magic Numbers
Azimuth 2021-03-09
Summary:
Working in the Manhattan Project, Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered in 1948 that nuclei with certain numbers of protons and/or neutrons are more stable than others. She won the Nobel prize for this discovery in 1963. Nuclei with 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, or 82 protons are especially stable, and also nuclei with 2, 8, 20, […]