DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
              RUTGERS - THE STATE UNIVERSITY
               Wednesday, January 27, 1999
              Physics Lecture Hall, 4:30 PM


        The Magic Numbers of Maria Goeppert Mayer:  
          The Past, The Present, and The Future

                    Jolie A. Cizewski
           Department of Physics and Astronomy
                        Rutgers

Maria Goeppert Mayer received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for 
the development of the Shell Model of the structure of atomic 
nuclei.  This talk will summarize some of the experimental data 
which supported the "magic numbers", numbers of neutrons or 
protons for nuclei with enhanced stability.  Current studies of 
nuclear structure at the limits of stability for decay by proton 
emission and the heaviest nuclei will be highlighted.  The talk 
will conclude with future prospects to study nuclei near the 
neutron-drip line with the next generation of radioactive ion beam 
accelerators and how such future studies could impact our 
understanding of nuclear shell structure.