Joseph Edward Mayer (February 5, 1904 – October 15, 1983) was an American chemist who formulated the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory.[1]

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Joseph Edward Mayer'
Born(1904-05-02)May 2, 1904
Died15 October 1983(1983-10-15) (aged 79)
Known forMayer expansion
Mayer f-function
Born–Mayer equation
McMillan–Mayer theory
AwardsPeter Debye Award (1967)
Scientific career
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
University of California, San Diego
University of Chicago
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He was professor of chemistry at the University of California San Diego from 1960 to 1972, and previously at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the University of Chicago.[2] He was married to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer from 1930 until her death in 1972. He went to work with James Franck in Göttingen, Germany in 1929, where he met Maria, a student of Max Born. He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1946),[3] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958),[4] and the American Philosophical Society (1970).[5] Joseph Mayer was president of the American Physical Society from 1973 to 1975.

Scientific contributions

He developed the cluster expansion method and Mayer-McMillan solution theory.

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