Background
Mayer, Peter Conrad was born on March 16, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of Joseph E. and Maria (Goeppert) Mayer.
(Being the son of two prominent scientists has its advanta...)
Being the son of two prominent scientists has its advantages; most notably Peter C. Mayer, son of renowned chemist Joseph E. Mayer and Nobel laureate physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, regaled his friends and colleagues with tales of his mother and father. When a colleague suggested he collect his stories in a book, Mayer became intrigued. In his new book Son of (Entropy)2: Personal Memories of a Son of a Chemist, Joseph E. Mayer, and a Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Peter presents a collection of vignettes about his famous parents. “The book differs from other biographies of Maria and the biographies and memoir of Joseph,” says Peter. “Unlike other sources, Son of (Entropy)2 is principally concerned with their non-professional accomplishments.” Set in both Germany and the U.S., Son of (Entropy)2 takes an unprecedented look at the scientists’ lives together, both as husband and wife and as parents. Peter particularly pays tribute to his mother, who blazed a trail for women in the field of science. He documents her career at Sarah Lawrence College and chronicles her and Joseph’s support of the war efforts during World War II, Joe at the Ballistics Research Laboratory of Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Maria with the Manhattan (nuclear bomb) Project. Throughout his storytelling, Peter highlights his parents’ sharp sense of humor. “I hope anyone who believed that prominent people and accomplished women are stogy learn better from the book. I also hope that the readers are happy about my parent’s good life.”
2011
Mayer, Peter Conrad was born on March 16, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of Joseph E. and Maria (Goeppert) Mayer.
Peter C. Mayer followed his father to Caltech, graduating in physics. However, although he has used his natural science education in some of his work and is using it in his retirement, he never was a practicing physicist. He followed his father to grad school at the University of California at Berkeley, but earned his Ph.D. in a very different field, economics.
Assistant professor economics Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1968-1971, University Guam, Mangilao, 1971-1974, associate professor, 1982-1984. Senior economist Guam Department Commerce, Tamuning, 1974-1980, chief economist, 1981-1982. Assistant professor University Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1980-1981.
Consultant on statistics Government of Guam, Agana, 1984-1985. Foreign expert Shanghai University Financial and Economics, People's Republic China, 1985-1986. Foreign teacher economics Kobe (Japan) University, 1986-1989.
Senior economist Guam Department of Commerce, Tamuning, 1989-1994, Guam Power Authority, Agana, 1994-1998. Associate professor economics Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, since 1998. Consultant, expert witness United States Department Justice, Agana, 1983.
In semi-retirement, he amused himself by making economic models of animal behavior. His first venture into biology, "Economic Models of Fish Shoal (School) Size" in Journal of Bioeconomics, has one characteristic of his father's single venture into biology as a joint author. Both papers are written like a patent.
Guam's Tax System, 1976,
Guam's Generating Option, 1982,
Notes on Tax Reform Northern 1: How to Encourage Home Ownership, 1990,
Notes on Tax Reform Northern 2: Liquor Taxation and Alcohol Abuse Among Youth, 1991.
Columnist Pacific Sun News, 1973-1974
(Guam's Tax System, 1976, Guam's Generating Option, 198...)
Member American Economic Association, Western Economic Association International
Peter C. Mayer was the son of chemist, Joseph E. Mayer and Nobel Prize winning physicist, Maria Goeppert Mayer; Married Mary Fay Marmon on August 23, 1974.
