The great application potential for two-dimensional (2D) membranes (MoS 2, WSe 2, graphene and so on) aroused much effort to understand their fundamental mechanical properties. The out-of-plane ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a physicist at Argonne who developed the nuclear shell model theory, a pivotal discovery that won her a Nobel Prize in 1963. This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the ...