Education
California Institute of Technology.
chemist physicist university professor
California Institute of Technology.
He was professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego from 1960 to 1973. He went to work with James Franck in Göttingen, Germany in 1929, where he met Maria, a student of Max Born. Joseph Mayer was president of the American Physical Society from 1973 to 1975.
He developed the cluster expansion method and Mayer-McMillan solution theory.
National Academy of Sciences. Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.