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Maria Goeppert-Mayer

28.06.2022 - 14:55 update 04.07.2022 - 13:39
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TOGETHER WE WILL BUILD THE FUTURE


THE FIELD GAME


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Maria Goeppert-Mayer


Maria Goeppert-Mayer – an American physicist born in Katowice, Poland, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for her “discoveries concerning the shell structure of the atomic nucleus

Did you know that…


Goepert explained the spin–orbit interaction in a specific way: Think of a room full of waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more variation; all the dancers are spinning twirling round and round like tops as they circle the room, each pair both twirling and circling. But only some of those that go counterclockwise are twirling counterclockwise. The others are twirling clockwise while circling counterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise: some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise.

Hint


Dance is a way of exercising. Take the closest exit of the building, go upstairs and then go left ~100 m. You will find a place where you can do some outdoor exercise and find another clue.

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